Stanislav Kyncl comes from Českomoravská vrchovina, from the village of Vestec which was later annexed to Chrudim. His father was a farm hand with a farmer. His mother was one of ten children, his father was one of seven and came from Svratouch. The eldest son usually inherited the farm; his father was not the eldest so he looked for a home elsewhere. At first his parents settled near Mariánské Lázně but their home burned down. In 1946 they moved to Předlánce, a part of Višňová. They were given 12 hectares of land. Times gor worse in the 1950s when the coop farms started. Yields in the Frýdlant area were always good, but sugar beet did not thrive there. The quotas still had to be met, but the coop farms did not prosper. He served in the military with the 19th Brigade of the Border Guard in Děčín. He responded to alarms when people escaped. He also served with the veterinary service, keeping horses, and at the castle in Děčín. He got married in 1968 and had a child. He did not agree with the August invasion but was not surprised it happened. He worked virtually all his life in the Frýdlant forestry plant. He is convinced that the Velvet Revolution was a betrayal of the nation. „The Frýdlant State Farm had 1200 employees, people had jobs. Then the factories closed down, people were left without work. People built family farms for 200-300 years, then the coops came and everything was destroyed. Then socialist agriculture was built, and it was top-notch. After the revolution, it was destroyed again, human labour was gone again. Now people don‘t have jobs here and Frýdlant remains a forgotten region.“ Current contact with Polish neighbours are limited to Czechs shopping in Poland, but many poles worked in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 60s (men in forests, women in textile factories), and many Polish women married Czechs and stayed here.