HELENA HUDECOVÁ :
At the time when we started to teach, “embecka” (Škoda MB), came to the village and we were observing it as a rarity.
DEZIDER HUDEC:
The payments for teacher and director of the school were really small, less than 1000 Kčs per month (approx. 133 USD). It was just for the basic living, only after it had increased to 1300 could I start to save money for a car.
HELENA HUDECOVÁ :
The system of buying was different from now. It was not as easy to go to the shop and buy it. It was necessary to sign up on a list and then wait. And when the trains were passing through our village, we were watching the wagons with new Škodas. We were counting the cars, because we knew, which number on the list was ours. It was around three years that we waited.
We came happily home in our new Škoda 1000 MB and we made a plan for a trip the next day. In the morning my husband woke me up saying that it looked like there was going to be a war. It was August 21, 1968 and the Soviet army had entered the country. There was panic. People were running to the shops to get reserves.
DEZIDER HUDEC :
During our travel we came upon a convoy of cars, soldiers, and at the end a soldier with an automatic gun. I thought about turning back, but it was already too late. We were crisscrossing between tanks and they were making the passage difficult.