Related to the Soviet Union, I took the liberty of saying the word ‘lagging behind’ and someone reported on me
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Jitka Veselá was born on May 23, 1943 as an only child to the family of a locksmith and lived with her parents in Sulovice, Central Bohemia, for up to five years. In 1948 they moved to nearby Kutná Hora and the father joined the Communist Party out of conviction. In 1953, he concealed from his family that he knew about the planned monetary reform. Jitka went to Sokol for as long as possible, then obligatorily to Pioneer. She graduated from primary school and secondary general education school in Kutná Hora, graduating in 1960. Then, despite family protests, she joined the Pedagogical Institute in Brandýs nad Labem and taught at a school in Nové Dvůr. In 1968, Jitka was already married and was expecting a second child with her husband. They spent the Warsaw Pact invasion on holiday in the Giant Mountains. At school, she refused to create bulletin boards with children and to go to parades, during the elections she went to court and together with her friends they called them a reactionary nest. This caused a lot of problems at work, when her comrades threatened to fire her several times. She gladly welcomed the Velvet Revolution, her son and nephew actively participated in student demonstrations. In 1993, she was expelled from school in Nové Dvůr for redundancy, and until her retirement she taught in Zásmuky and Žiželice. Shortly after the revolution, she travelled to Vienna. Today he lives in Kutná Hora.
