"So he was in those legions and he came back. Dad still remembers it, so that's what he told me. So he came back in a terrible state; lousy, fleady, sick and dirty. So the first thing they actually did when he came home from Vladivostok, so he stripped completely naked in the garden, they just burned all his clothes so that any disease would not get to us. And he returned, actually scared in the sense that he had actually met the Bolsheviks there for the first time. He remembered the horrors and was terrified, and then for the rest of his life he was afraid they would come to us. He actually hid his rifle from the regime that when they came, he wanted to defend himself with a rifle. Well, he hid it, but he actually died in 1945 in March, so he didn't live to see the end of the war. Then the rifle was found, when our house was demolished, it was found in a grain cylinder. "
"We are still having a trial, we didn't get anything for the house - or just the redemption price, but the redemption price was like you would get three thousand for the house today. That I actually only needed a fraction of it, I don't know, you won't understand, but when a house is built, you actually have to take the building out of the agricultural fund. You pay a fee, which was around three thousand crowns. So we only got a fraction of the three thousand, so it was almost nothing. And we didn't get anything for that, because when they were evicted, everyone lost their documents. And there was a time when it had to be asked, we just didn't find it, it was even lost from the cadastre, so there was nothing to it, so we seemed to miss this. And then we didn't get anything for the land under the town hall where the cherries were, because the same thing was lost, the documents were lost, even the geometric plan in which it was separated was lost. And it was lost from the cadastre office too, so we just got nothing for it."
"Well, and then when we knew they were going to demolish the house, we actually built the house. From various loans, the parents somehow put it together. Well, and then it was actually there for another year or two before we moved here and demolished it all there. And we spent our free time after school going downstairs, we went there to watch. I had the cat there, we kept moving up here, about a kilometer on foot. We always brought him here and he always came back. So we moved him in a backpack, in a stroller, he always just ran away. And then it actually ended, this stage, that Honza once came up here, that we're already breaking it down. So we actually ran downstairs to watch them just tear down our house. And the last thing I remember is that I just looked where my cat Micák was and he just wasn't there anymore and I didn't actually see him anymore."
Magdaléna Mruškovičová, a née Antošová, was born on June 26, 1979. For several generations, her family owned a farm and extensive land in Modřany. In the 1950s, part of them was confiscated, and they lost the rest during the course of 1970s and 1980s. Magdalena experienced a part of her childhood on the farm, but in 1986 they moved to another house, because they knew their farm was being demolished. Eventually, this happened in August 1989. After the Velvet Revolution, Magdalena and her family tried in vain to obtain compensation and restitution of land in restitution. In 2021, Magdaléna Mruškovičová worked as a social worker in a parish charity and also sold real estate.
