When his family had been forced to join a collective farm, he bit a hand of an official

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… 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

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… “Before we (joined) the JZD (Unified Agricultural Cooperative), we had been still …

They demanded such high contingents that it wiped us out

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… 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

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… 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

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… "So there was talk about having to join the JZD because it was involuntary and there were slogans that …

Farming in Dolní Rudná

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… 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

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… was fine for me. I lived there for many years. I worked in JZD as a tractorist.” …

People from Pečky looked down on us

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… 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

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… 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

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… of them by the state leadership and join the so-called JZD [Unified Agricultural Cooperative], our father got the …