I was a revolutionary, Baťa seemed like an exploiter
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Vladimíra Brůžová comes from a mining family. She was born on 14 February 1938 in Kladno and her first memories include hiding with her family in the cellar during the air raids on nearby Kralupy nad Vltavou during the Second World War. Her father moved away for work, so for a few years she lived with her parents and younger brother in Radovesice near Bílina. However, the village had to give way to mining in 1971 and Vladimíra Brůžová still has a vivid memory of how the village with a thousand inhabitants slowly disappeared. She graduated from the Industrial Film School in Čimelice, majoring in production, and then worked for five years in film studios in Gottwaldov, today‘s Zlín. There she met her first husband, with whom she had two daughters. Due to a lack of finances, the family moved to northern Bohemia. Under the influence of the enthusiasm of the Prague Spring, the witness joined the Communist Party. Because of an article in Průboj, the regional weekly of the Communist Party, her husband lost his job and was not allowed to write under his own name. The impossibility of realizing himself and his predilection for women led to the couple‘s divorce. The witness married for the second time. She worked first at the Czechoslovak Radio in Ústí nad Labem and from 1963 as a producer in the first regional editorial office of Czechoslovak Television in Ústí nad Labem, where she remained until her retirement. In 2023 she lived in Ústí nad Labem. We were able to record her story thanks to support from the city of Ústí nad Labem.
