"It was a large farm. Just the house had - two, three, four, five, six, seven rooms. There was the furniture for which we had no place. Lots of things were left behind. Various books of my father's, for which we had no place, and some furniture. I recall that before I did my military service, there used to be inspections. They checked whether we handed over all the grains, counting the geese and the chicken, alongside horses, cattle, pigs. Everything had to be counted. And they even did house searches."
"So, I came up with the idea of the lollipops, after consulting an architect. The architect only prolonged the part on the top. I made the calculations and the visual proposals alongside my engineers. As of now, they have been standing for forty-five or forty-six years."
"At home, we had a Prussian rifle which was used during the 1866 battle of Chlum. It was a historical weapon. But because the inspections were coming over and checking everything including closets, I took the rifle - my mother told me that I couldn't have kept it anymore - and threw it in the pond."
Miloš Morávek was born in June 1932 in Svobodné Dvory, on the outskirts of Hradec Králové where his family owned a farmhouse since the 17th century. A part of the homestead was a renowned brick factory, hand making quality products. Up to this day, there are a number of buildings in the vicinity, which were built using those bricks. In 1899, a skeleton of a mammoth was uncovered directly on the premises of the brick factory, being deposited in the Museum of Eastern Bohemia. After the communist takeover in February 1948, the farm was nationalized, the brick factory torn down and the whole family expelled. In difficult circumstances, Miloš still managed to obtain university education. He graduated from a faculty of civil engineering and worked in Stavoprojekt for many years. He is the author of a renowned landmark in Hradec Králové, the so-called lollipops.
