Women were crying, men were cursing, it was when the Soviet tanks came

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Blanka Budková was born on 1 August 1939 in Vrbová Lhota. Her mother Anna came from a family of a medium-rich farmer, her father Josef Kukla belonged to the poor. Her mother‘s family did not support the relationship, and so their marriage took place secretly, only in the presence of strangers as witnesses. They had to work on their own, without any help. Even so, they managed to create a nice home and a self-sufficient farm for their children. In 1952, however, the farm was confiscated. This and other hardships led to Anna Kuklová‘s suicide. Blanka Budková graduated from the Faculty of Education in Prague, majoring in Czech language and physical education. She worked as a teacher all her professional life, in 1971 she started teaching in Poděbrady, where she remained for the rest of her professional career. She married Bedřich Budka in 1968 and in 1969 they had a son. She brought up not only him, but also her husband‘s son from his first marriage. Together with her husband, they expressed a negative attitude towards the occupation in 1968. In the 1980s, she and her husband were among the first beagle breeders. After the fall of the communist regime, she applied for her parents‘ fields to be returned to her as part of the restitution.