My husband said we can’t avoid the agricultural cooperative
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She was born on 30 April 1931 in Valašská Bystřice under the surname Křenková. She came from a poor family with a small farm. Her mother gave birth to twelve children, four of whom died shortly after birth. The family survived the war unscathed, although her grandfather secretly brought food to the partisans in hiding. At the age of fifteen, she went to Varnsdorf to apprentice on knitting machines with the owner of a knitting company who planned to open a factory in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, not far from where she lived. After the communists came to power in 1948 and the nationalisation began, the knitting factory did not open and Zdenka had to return home from Varnsdorf. In 1951 she married the son of a farmer from the village of Vidče. She worked on the family farm. Workers from the Tesla factory in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm came to convince farmers from the surrounding villages to join agricultural cooperatives. Zdenka Petruželová and her husband joined one of them, even though her husband’s mother strongly disagreed. Zdenka then assigned work to individual members in the cooperative and worked as an accountant. In 2023 she lived in Vidč in the Zlín region.
