Do not ask for concessions
Zdenka Žmudová was born on December 20, 1947 into a peasant family. Her parents were significantly affected by collectivization, when they first had to hand over the machines they had been saving for a long time, and finally join the unified agricultural cooperative (JZD). Thanks to this, Zdenka was able to graduate from university, namely the Czech and German languages. She spent her university years during the Prague Spring, which she remembers very fondly. In 1967 and 1968, she managed to travel to West Germany for a study stay. She was also there in August 1968 and for a long time considered returning to Czechoslovakia at all. She finally returned in late 1968, finished school, and has been teaching continuously ever since.