Just don’t let the Lord God bring the regime back
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Božena Kutálová was born on December 10, 1923 in Vysoké Mýto. She lived with her parents in the building of a local burgher brewery. She was a Girl Scout, attending ballet, taking singing and piano lessons. As a child, she met the president Masaryk. At the age of seventeen, she recited a poem to Jaroslav Seifert. During the war, Božena could not properly complete her grammar school studies, and instead of graduating, she joined, together with other classmates, the Sodomka factory in Vysoké Mýto, which produced bodywork. After the war, she studied at Charles University, where she planned to fulfill her childhood dream and study medicine. Her teacher was, among others, General Heliodor Pika. However, due to love, she did not complete her studies and, together with her lover moved to the border, where her husband performed veterinary supervision at the city slaughterhouse. Here he was accused of alleged anti-communist activity, as a result of which he spent three months in pre-trial detention in Most. At that time, the witness was expecting the birth of the first child. After a while, the family returned to Vysoké Mýto.
