They set the example of the diligence and modesty of Soviet women. I almost wore myself out.
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Anna Škrabalová, b. Zadrobílková, was born on August 2, 1934 in Radvanice in the district of Kutná Hora to Anastasia and Václav Zadrobíleks. The family lived mostly on what they grew on their two-and-a-half-hectare farm. As the only child of her parents, Anna had to work hard on the farm since childhood, after the war she did not go to study due to her mother’s illness and worked at home in agriculture. In the first half of the 1950s, the Communist father was forced to “donate” the fields to the state and then work in a unified agricultural cooperative (JZD). Anna found a job at the state farm office in Říčany. She lived in Prague since the mid-1960s, when she married a teacher from the Ota Škrabal Mechanical Engineering School. In 1966, her daughter was born. She recalls the Warsaw Pact invasion, which took place almost under her windows, as they lived in Plavecká Street in the center of Prague. She has never been in the Communist Party, so she was disadvantaged in various ways, but she did not lose her job because of it. During her life, she completed her high school diploma at the School of Economics, worked at the Prague City Hall in the finance department and at the Technical and Construction Office. The high workload required of her second job manager ruined her health.
