When his family had been forced to join a collective farm, he bit a hand of an official
(video)… because my family didn't want to join a collective farm (JZD). They would try to change our minds in quite a brutal …
Before joining the Unified Agricultural Cooperative
(audio)… “Before we (joined) the JZD (Unified Agricultural Cooperative), we had been still …
They demanded such high contingents that it wiped us out
(video)… farm - and so he farmed it for a few years. In 1958, the JZD (unified agriculture cooperative) was founded. That was …
In the winter I worked in the clothes in which I was arrested in the summer
(video)… have a penny. And they told me that [I should go] either to JZD (unified agricultural cooperative) or to Horní Bříza, …
As a kulak, my father received few food stamps
(video)… "So there was talk about having to join the JZD because it was involuntary and there were slogans that …
Farming in Dolní Rudná
(audio)… About 50 hectares in total. And in that fiftieth year, JZD was founded. Father and grandfather said that they would …
The Arrival Of The Volhynian Czechs To Czechoslovakia
(audio)… was fine for me. I lived there for many years. I worked in JZD as a tractorist.” …
People from Pečky looked down on us
(audio)… They looked down on mom, even on my dad. In that local JZD (agricultural cooperative), where mom and dad used to …
The family lost the farm
(audio)… six years. Then came the merger, the establishment of the JZD, here a state farm. They forced him to leave. He had …
Father got the worst of it
(audio)… of them by the state leadership and join the so-called JZD [Unified Agricultural Cooperative], our father got the …