They were just waiting for some excuse to scare people
Marie Polášková, née Sochorová, was born on 20 March 1938 in the village of Sýkorec, which is now a part of the town of Kopřivnice. In 1960 she married Jaromír Polášek. She thus found her way into a family suffering heavily from Communist persecution. Her husband‘s father and brother, Alois and Václav Polášek, were sentenced to prison in 1957 for assaulting the chairman of the local united agricultural cooperative (UAC), Albín Bardoň. The punishment was meant to scare smallholders into joining the UACs. The event left its mark on all members of the family, especially when several months after returning from the correctional labour camp Bytíz, Václav Polášek‘s wife gave birth to a disabled boy, Pavel. Marie Polášková still thinks that the disability was caused by Václav Polášek‘s forced labour in the uranium mines. After the fall of Communism the witness attempted to rehabilitate her father-in-law Alois Polášek. However, the Regional Court in Ostrava repeatedly denied her request, and Marie Poláčková had to wait until 1994 to receive positive confirmation from the High Court in Prague. She claims that the delays and negative statements of the court were done with regard to the return of their confiscated property, which she remains dissatisfied with.