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as well. Just remember how it was during Hitler’s era. He got really mad at me. Shortly he said, in Vienna they knew that much earlier than us. We have a cottage on the Sázava river, where the tanks went through and they made a huge noise. We just watched what was happening. I would have never allowed it. I always thought it was impossible. Then I saw the after-effects, how they were shooting at people on Vinohradská street. Don’t ever tell me they were brothers. Did you, after August 21st, after the arrival of the Warsaw brigades 20 , have any problems at work? No, I formed my principle for this, that I will never deny it. Also, that I will never start talking about it. However, I had to break this rule once. At one time, I was at a cottage with my son and the neighbors from next door had a little girl, who was going to kindergarden. She asked, “Mrs. Stuchlíková, were you in prison?” That was the first time when I denied it because I told to myself that kid doesn´t need to know anything about it. I was mad at her parents though because they should be more careful when talking in front of kids. I also didn´t want to admit it because of my son, so he wouldn’t have problems out of it. He knew it about his dad because he knew his friends. Finally we had it all out in 1989. How do you recall the year 1989 in your memories? I wasn´t in Prague at that time, so I didn´t know much about it. I didn´t go back to Prague before the Confederation started to be formed. I couldn´t care about it that much because my husband was very ill. Do you have any health problems from the experience in the prisons? In Želiezovce I strained my backbone after the first month and I was suffering from that for another 20 years. Other girls had problems from the jaundice, about which I have told you already. When were you rehabilitated? I was trying to do that already in 1968. I had a judge Bohdana Smolíková, or something like that. In her speech she made a murderess out of me, because I had one accomplice, who was sentenced for one year. I hardly knew him but during the twelve years I was in prison, he died. She blamed me for his death. So the rehabilitation ended with another fiasco. Then I was rehabilitated in 1989 without any problems. Would you be able to forgive them for all the injustice? You know, the thing I minded the most was living behind the bars. When someone complains how badly we were treated there, I would forgive them all that. Even if the bars would be made of gold, they could never be a substitute for freedom. Freedom is the biggest thing in life. What helped you to live through the years you were in prison? I think it was anger. I’m not a person who would cry out, but when injustice happens to me, then I get very angry. Finally, in prison there is life as well, you have some fun, but there are also terrible things happening there. We had to live through everything. Don’t forget to put this in. There are about twenty of us who were in prison, our husbands were in prison, and we don’t have the pension money and we will never get it. Thank you very much for the interview. 20 Warsaw brigades – Warsaw Agreement was an army pact of the European countries of the Eastern bloc, which existed in 1955 – 1991. It was based on the Agreement of friendship, cooperation and help, which was signed on May 14, 1955 by representatives of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania, and U.S.S.R. in Warsaw. Czechoslovak Political Prisoners 83
Hana Truncová was born in a trading family in Teplice in 1924. She was arrested in 1951 because of assisting at illegal border crossings in the communist Czechoslovakia. She was also printing leaflets against the Communist Party after 1948. She was sentenced to thirteen years of prison. She was released in 1960. “It gave me confidence and from the political view it gave me the anti-communist view.” 84
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This book introduces ten victims of
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Co-financed by the European Union w
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Preface This book is part of a larg
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Historical Overview Postwar Develop
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political parties and especially to
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ple’s Militia was established: th
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The whole trial was effected by com
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The incarcerated were beaten in var
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escapee could be seen well. In the
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For women there was a prison in Par
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were people who worshiped moral sta
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Never ending desire for freedom-esc
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was one of the biggest experiences
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Interview with Mrs. Jindřiška Hav
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Murzin 5 , a new commander, was sup
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adio what was happening. Then we we
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Page 36 and 37: Were you sharing the room with crim
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Page 44 and 45: Interview with Julie Hrušková Whe
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Page 50 and 51: Where did they take you after the t
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Page 60 and 61: Interview with Mrs. Květoslava Mor
Page 62 and 63: Did you have to pay taxes to the Ge
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Page 70 and 71: What was your release like? Well, I
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Page 74 and 75: Interview with Mrs. Drahomíra Stuc
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Page 82 and 83: How did the institute clothes look
Page 86 and 87: Interview with Mrs. Hana Truncová
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Page 96 and 97: How was it when you returned home?
Page 98 and 99: Interview with Mr. Augustin Bubník
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Page 114 and 115: Interview with Mr. Zdeněk Kovaří
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Page 128 and 129: Interview with Mr. Jozef Kycka Firs
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was a member of the International R
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What were you exactly charged for?
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If we looked at your story with the
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who sentenced me. Now he was a chai
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Interview with Mr. Jan Pospíšil W
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abroad to buy carpets. He was getti
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Did you confess to anything in Olom
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Where were you sent after a half ye
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What exactly did you do in camp “
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Interview with Mr. Hubert Procházk
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Do you remember the names of your c
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What did they want, if I may say it
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cause I was almost deaf. They put m
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jerk. Only a few of these vindictiv
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central camp headquarters. This cam
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The main prisons and labor camps in
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A letter from prison Czechoslovak P
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A suit for pardon The reply from th
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One of the few remains. This used t
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Map of former uranium mines and lab
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