Adelheida Pačková

„In 1951, grandfather Jan died and my father had to take his place. He started in 1956 or a little later. The mill had one floor at the time and he wanted to grind more for the wider area, so he raised the whole mill by one floor. He bought machinery, wanted to install it and grind for a larger area, because at that time there were not many mills around. In 1961, however, the mill was nationalised and it came under the control of Silesian mills and Olomouc bakeries. After that, my father no longer invested in it because it was nationalised. They let it grind until 1965. Then they stopped the mill completely. This made my father very ill. He had a stroke, he was 40 years old. He was on sick leave for half a year, unable to work. Then he got to the gypsum mine.“

"I think that collectivization happened in 1952 and people were given crofts. The communists took the big fields back then, but the people had crofts and from those crofts they also had grain. What were they supposed to do with it? I don't know how many ares they could have. They always drove what they threshed to our mill. They also were people from other villages around us, so there was a lot. One gentleman always stayed with us for a month after the harvest. There was a divan where you could lie down, but you couldn't sleep. We also heard the noise of the mill in the house where we lived, because one wall was shared. Dad thought it couldn't be closed. It seemed abnormal to him that the mill would close and he would not have a job."