Marie Tejklová

“My brother was about to get married and he was in Sázava visiting his future wife. He brought me a transistor radio before he went to work. He came at about five in the morning. I turned the radio on and then I heard it. We were very surprised. They [Soviet soldiers] were not here but when we were in the field near a national road, we saw them driving there. It was not a pretty picture.”

“Then I worked in the cooperative for two years and my daughters went to kindergarten. Then my fourth was born. Then I again continued in crop production that was in the fields in summer, and in the winter, there was work for Tesla as an associated production. They brought it from Tesla. Then I worked again in the fields in summer and in 1991 I started in a cow house. At that time, my youngest was already bigger, until then I could not work there. After that I worked in the cow house for eleven years and I really liked that as well. It was better that working in the fields because the work was stable. It was hot or cold out in the fields, but in the cow house the work was stable and I enjoyed it.”