Anna Hanzalová

"They were building or driving. The rumble, I still have it in me. Just when I look at the situation in Ukraine, I am terrified. Fortunately, it was not so bloody in our country... We did not learn how it went in Prague for example. The August 21st. You understand. One couldn't at all. It wasn't until many years later that we saw the horrors on Wenceslas Square and in front of the radio organization."

"Then, in 1946, just after the war, my dad decided to establish a cooperative because he already knew at the time, at least he said that at the time he knew the Communists would take it from him anyway, because he would not last long with that private business. And it happened in 1948. So, in 1946 my dad organized a founding general meeting of twenty members, which was among the conditions of the establishment of the cooperative. It was also not an easy matter, because it was conditional, membership entry was conditioned by a financial contribution. People were poor and had no money and did not trust that it could happen at all, that the establishment could happen. Well, he still succeeded, and so, the cooperative was formed slowly."