The imprint of history developments in a Moravian village
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Milada Glozarová was born in Hostěnice near Brno on 10 October 1939 to Milada Řičánková, née Šlesingrová, and Stanislav Řičánek. Both parents came from large families of small farmers in Hostěnice. Milada Glozarová‘s childhood took place in the shadow of the Nazi occupation and her family had to pay benefits in kind during the war. Her strongest childhood memories involve the end of the war when the situation for the Nazi army began to deteriorate disastrously. In the final days, the Germans staged an operation to hunt down Soviet partisans hiding in the woods, threatening to kill every tenth man if the villagers did not turn in the partisans. Thanks to the intervention of the German-speaking headmaster of the local school, the village was spared reprisals. The witness‘s family fled to a cottage near the nearby village of Ochoz before the approaching frontline while combat action raged in the vicinity of Hostěnice. Returning to the village, they found traces of a grenade explosion in one of the rooms and tubes from the Katyusha rocket launchers in one part of the village. The Soviets stayed in the village for about a week. In September 1945, the witness started primary school in Pozořice. Completing her nine years of attendance, she was forced to work in farming by the decision of the period authorities, without a choice of job or studies. She took turns working at Rybena and Zetor and helped at home. She married František Glozar in 1959 and they raised four children over time. Their eldest son Karel Glozar (born 1959) died tragically during the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops. Having eaten mushrooms on 21 August 1968, he was taken to hospital for a gastric lavage and stayed for observation. His condition deteriorated rapidly over the weekend and he died on Tuesday, 27 August 1968, officially of mushroom poisoning. The witness never found the exact reason for his rapid deterioration. In March 1968, she joined the municipality in the neighbouring village of Pozořice and was in charge of finance under the district national committee (district authority). Working closely with the chairman of the committee, she spent the following years taking care of accounts, fundraising and cash management, finally working her way up to head of the department. In the early 1980s, she took a compulsory three-month course in Marxism-Leninism for non-partisans. After the Velvet Revolution, she was briefly the secretary of the municipal committee (the equivalent of deputy mayor) before retiring in 1992 at the age of 53. At the time of the interview, in 2025, she was living in her family home in Hostěnice near Brno.
