Josef Dolejší

"Of course, there was a group of comrades who labelled the village rich. That is, my grandfather was labelled being a village rich man. And thus twenty percent of the property brought in was forfeited to the state, or in short to the cooperative farm. And if he was a village rich man, ninety percent was forfeited. That means what he brings in, the property, that means machinery, horses, everything, pigs, everything he brings in, ninety percent went into the undivided fund. That means that practically these people had nothing left. If the cooperative farm was liquidated, they would only got that ten percent of it."

"Nineteen hundred and fifty-three to fifty-five, that's when I was at the military service at Karlovy Vary. That's when they put me in the Auxiliary Engineering Corps, we were stationed in Stružný, which is not far from Karlovy Vary. And then I was in various places, mostly in Litoměřice and Doupov, that was a military area. We were doing as Auxiliary Engineering Corps. That is, we were cutting stone in the quarry, then we built observation posts for military exercises, then we made some of these bunkers against atomic bombs, and we were also deployed once during the floods in the Sokolov region. Those who went before me, the two, three years, they were still going to the mines. I didn't have to go to the mines."