Marta Zděnková

"Actually, when I was supposed to leave school, collective farm just started here, and Hradištko was probably the last village in the district, where there was no collective farm yet. My dad worked in a printing house. I remember he came and said to the mother, 'We need to talk, I have something to tell you.' And the next day my mother went to sign the application for the cooperative, but only later, from the former secretary, who was working there at the time, did I learn that if it weren't for the director, who was there at the time, whose name was Broža, my father was taken away right away because he was a hot-headed person. Something happened there, I don't know what it was exactly. He was given the condition that either the mother would come to sign or that they would come for him. That's how the cows had to go, all of them to the collective farm. And my mother, as she was the youngest along with Mrs. Břízová, they were obliged to guard them. But nothing was fenced back then, they just had to run after them. And she always came back complaining, 'I'm so tired!' So I said, 'I'm always going to help you in afternoons.'"