František Luňáček was born in Malé Svatoňovice as the only son of his parents, textile workers. He remembers greeting Red Army tanks as a two-year-old. In 1947, the family moved to Předlánce. They longed for their own farm, so they got twelve hectares and a farm. They were its second post-war inhabitants, the previous Czech had taken the cattle and the farm had been abandoned. When the family paid off the loans they had to get to get the farm, the Agricultural Coop (JZD) came. Although reluctantly, they joined it because their mother fell ill. They were given a barren field at the end of the village. Because of this, the father tore up the legitimacy of the Communist Party, of which he had been a member until then. In 1962, while the witness was in the army, the Cuban Missile Crisis broke out. He experienced an emergency on the western border as a rookie. He was scared. American tanks were on the German side and Soviet tanks were coming toward it. During his military service, he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1968, František Luňáček worked as a bus driver in ČSAD. At night he was mowing grass for a cow, and at five o‘clock in the morning his father came to see him. He said, „Let the scythe be, there will be a war. We‘ve been attacked by the Russians!“ They turned on the radio and it was true. He went to Frýdlant. „There were already tanks driving around, the pavement was pounded out, the soldiers on the tanks, who had slanted eyes, didn‘t look like Russians at all.“ There were no buses, so he and his friends went to the square to a pub, the White Horse. One gentleman greeted them with a bottle of vodka, they almost beat him up for it. Three days later, the witness got to Prague. There were tanks in front of the radio station and nobody knew what was going to happen. In 1969 František Luňáček left the Communist Party because he disagreed with the invasion. He took part in a demonstration in a Liberec square. He criticises the period after the Velvet Revolution. The Frýdlant forestry company, which had a good reputation and took care of its employees, went bankrupt. He would took a bus to France and Italy, where people asked him why so many prosperous factories and farms were closed down in Czechoslovakia after the revolution.