You just had to learn to accept that there were many things you just couldn’t get
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Blanka Dospělová, née Hláváčková, was born on October 19, 1955 in Vítkov, North Moravia. Her mother had been working in a sweets´ shop, at a shoemaker’s shop and, and in the end, at the Elektroisola national enterprise in Tábor. Her father was a Czechoslovak People’s Army lieutenant colonel. She has two younger brothers, Zdeněk (1957) and Ivan (1965). Her family had to move quite often due to her father’s job; the witness had been attending public school in Vítkov, Uherské Hradiště and in Hodonín, where she also witnessed the Warsaw Pact Invasion of 1968. after that, her family moved to Zďár nad Sázavou; and she attended a secondary school in Brno since 1973. She trained as a drugstore saleswoman. In 1984 she moved with her husband to Bruntál, where she had been working in technical support, later moving to a local national enterprise catering. In 1987, her family moved to Prague, where she had witnessed the Velvet Revolution and the previous protests. She took interest in dog breeding, collaborating with the Prague’s Paramedic Brigade. In 2009 she moved to Tábor, where she had been working at a nursing home at the time this interview had been recorded (2016).
