Dvůr Sehnalových v době vyvlastnění

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… národní výbor, druhé bylo Zdravotní středisko a třetí JZD Paršovice. Měli takový honosný název JZD Mír Paršovice. Takže s likvidovanýma Sehnalama získali …

Collectivization of agricultural farms

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… and he didn’t join the Unified Agricultural Cooperatives (JZD). He was therefore ordered to deliver more than the whole JZD in Petrovice. He had to deliver required quota of … was confiscated by the state. It was appropriated by the JZD or by the farms, or those who administered the village …

They were waiting for us outside the yard

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… "When the JZD (Unified agriculture cooperative) was being established, … and persuade them to give up their property and join the JZD. There was a harvest and we were in the field, cutting … came to us and kept telling us that we would do well in the JZD, that we should give it all up. It was getting my …

Clip 2 - Year 1952 and a communist ban on gulag entry into agricultural cooperative

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… a member of an agricultural cooperative also wanted to join JZD: ‚In the evening in autumn twenty two farmers gathered … they were all willing to sign the application to join the JZD. The chairman František Drda from Lešany and the … us? When the farmers were asking for an application to JZD, he said: Do not give any to them, the coop will be …

Pressure to enter the JZD

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… Pressure to enter the JZD

Clip 2 - on the eviction to Lanškroun

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… felt sorry, because if my father had stayed in the local JZD it would at least have a future. But here, the JZD was taken over by these sixty-year-old grannies who did …

How they came to persuade father to join the cooperative

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… started, they came again and urged dad to sign the JZD. They founded the JZD in Bánov - to sign the cooperative, because he …

They took our cows and wouldn't let my sister go to high school

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… around the village and talking people into joining the JZD. Our two cows ended up in that farmhouse. I mean, there … for a long time before that. My mother went to work in the JZD. I can say she was happy, though. See, cows need care … it every time, morning, noon, evening. Working at the coop, JZD, she took the morning shift and then had the afternoon …

The communists shut down my parents' farm

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… "When the communists founded the JZD (farming cooperative) and socialism, we had a fairly big … us as an example of how to transfer the ownership to the JZD. My father didn't want to sign it, so they shut it down. …

The mother applied in vain for entry into the collective farm

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… "When [JZD] started to come together and there was a risk that the … to stand up for you!' Our parents wanted to join the JZD in the end, they were at rock bottom. But they had an …