Vojtěch Bajer

"These people had to provoke a lot of other people quite a lot, because they refused to enter the collective farm. A lot of people were not doing anything about it for a long time and they adjusted, they became reconciled to it. And all those who couldn't withstand it might have been annoyed that they didn´t. All those who entered, and the benefits of the cooperative, were suddenly not as they imagined, all of those people were annoyed that they had entered. And it bothered a lot of other people too. You are still such a conscience, perhaps subconsciously perceived, you are the provocative. If everyone joined the collective farm, the regime, it was about the regime, no one can disturb us, it creates the uneasiness, even though it is subconscious. Even people had to perceive this, of course, that in the beginning they were still admired by many - You are still holding on. And after some time they heard - You're crazy, why are you doing this? Look, you don't have kids in school, it doesn't make sense anyway, don´t do it. Why are you doing this? Why do you live on those clearings, here you would get an apartment in an apartment building, you would work in a cooperative. You have no pension, what will you get out of it? You're crazy."

"Here at this moment, when I look at the story of Jan Sedláček, he is a man who really lasted all the time not to enter the collective farm. I don't want to romanticize it, I see that it was the fact that his family played a big role. His father, who was able to devote so much to the partisans during the war. Basically, it was a huge asset when you add up what he gave them. He was willing to take risks, to take a lot of risks, it wasn't just some distant danger, that in other villages people were getting arrested for something, that you would hear or read it in the newspapers. It was right in their village; it affected their family. The moment you take a risk like that, when you take a risk like this, you have to be crazy. You're risking your family. And whoever risks their family for something like that is not a completely normal person."