František Kopecký

"Then we had some troubles with the new comrade director. As today we do not like to remember those time, and some of us would rather not hear of that, but I do not know, if you learnt at school, who were the flaggers...? It was a certain anti-fashist group. In my birthplace some people changed sides in a very short while and then they became the tough comrades. That´s how the history went on. For me it was the toughest that one of them sang. As in the village, how many men do you think could sing? And back then for example they sang at the Easter. Passion. So one of them sang, but if he had only sung the Judas character, but he actually sang the Christ..."

"At that time a school for repairmen of agricultural engines was opening at Dobris, and we were somehow destined to fill it in. That's where I could go, but I did not want that. I wanted to be a bricklayer like my dad. He took it pragmatically, he said, "Well, you will finish these studies and when you good at it and you want it, so you will continue to industrial school, and when you are really good at it, you will want to go to college." In order to know things from handwork to some other matter. Well, the local comrades meant otherwise. The comrade director of the school, the comrade chairman of the cooperative and the comrade chairman of the National Committee said, "No." That was such a local menace, so here was the absurd situation that some people were not allowed to go to study. When they realised I did not want to study, I was not allowed to go to become a bricklayer."