Father's withdrawal from the coop

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… "The JZD [farm cooperatives] started, so dad joined one too, but …

Collectivization

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… we gave it to the cooperative. We refused to join the JZD (collectivized farms). Then the whole village was …

How the officials forced my father to join the cooperative farm

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… voluntarily forced signature to join the cooperative farm (JZD)." …

Husband as chairman of JZD: It was up to him, and then he was punished

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… Husband as chairman of JZD: It was up to him, and then he was punished …

My father resisted pressure to join the JZD in Bludov

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… My father resisted pressure to join the JZD in Bludov …

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 …