The family resisted forced collectivisation until 1963

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Marie Janošková, née Čevelová, was born on 17 August 1932 in Kudlovice. She grew up in Spytihněv together with her younger sister, her brother died after an electric shock. Her father was a blacksmith, her mother took care of the household, and her parents had a small farm. After the founding of the cooperative farm, her father lost almost all his blacksmithing contracts and found work in a cooperative farm. After attending a primary school and municipal school, Marie worked at the Fatra Napajedla company from the age of 14. In 1954 she married Bedřich Janoška and worked on the family farm. Her husband joined the cooperative farm at first, but left after a short time. The reason was the incompetent management of the farm. As long as the family farmed privately, they thrived. There were still five farmers in the village farming independently. The pressure from the cooperative farm increased after two years, when they exchanged their land for inferior land. In the second half of the 1950s, the situation of private farmers escalated due to high agricultural contributions. Nevertheless, the Janoškas managed to farm until the early 1960s. As they still refused to join the cooperative farm, in 1963 their cattle, agricultural machinery, straw, hay and seeds were gradually confiscated and their fields were incorporated into the cooperative. The liquidation of the private farmers in Kudlovice was carried out on the basis of the sections of the expropriation law dating back to second half of the 1950s. The confiscation of property was carried out by local citizens, mostly peers of the private farmers. The whole operation was supervised by people from the district authorities. After the forced collectivisation of the family farm, Marie Janošková rejoined the Fatra Napajedla company, where she worked for nineteen years in the factory canteen. Her husband was not interested in working in the cooperative farm and he and his friends joined the sugar factory in Hulín. At first the cooperative farm management did not want to allow the men to leave and demanded compensation in the form of a wagon of plant cuttings for the cattle. After 1989, the Janoškas were compensated for the expropriated property worth 14,000 crowns, and they leased the returned fields to the cooperative farm. Apart from getting the pension, they earned a little by growing fruit and vegetables in the large family garden. Like them, no one in Kudlovice returned to private farming.