Whoever had more fields got locked up
Bohuslav Veverka was born on February 8, 1936 and spent his whole life on a family farm in Kunvald under the Eagle Mountains. Since early youth he worked at home on a farm and balanced his work with sports. He liked to practice in Sokol, go skiing, play theatre, fish and go hunting in the forest. His father became politically involved. In the 1950s, he refused to join the collective agricultural cooperative. Fearing for the fate of the family and family property, he divorced his wife and left the family. In 1954, the witness‘s father, Bohuslav Veverka, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his work. He died in Leopoldov three years later. Bohuslav Jr. spent the war in the years 1957-1958 with the Technical Battalions. Meanwhile, the mother farmed at home alone and bravely resisted harsh communist pressure, prescribed supplies and repression for non-compliance. In 1960, they agreed to join the collective farm, where Bohuslav Veverka worked until his retirement.
