Interviews Maria Korbelová, Marie Kocurová, Pavlína Granzerová, U Opavice 3Message to the future generations: “Enjoy and take care of what we have built here.” Libuše and Mirek Masaříkovi, U Opavice 4“We were happy here; it was a completely different sense of community back then.” Jiřina Mainušová, U Opavice 2“It’s hard to believe that we were so blinded.” (about the 1950 political trials of Milada Horáková) Zdeňka and Jan Jusovi, U Opavice 4“First we need to determine what we mean by a prefabricated block of flats.” Vojtěch Kostka, U Opavice 4“Cooperative democracy is about communicating and negotiating.” Pavel Lyko, U Opavice 2“It’s peaceful here; quite an oasis. Living here is super.” Karel and Barbora Premusovi, U Opavice 2“We all did everything together and it was fun. Times are different now– today it just wouldn’t work the same.” Renáta and Bohumil Kubánkovi, U Opavice 3 “When we hear the sirens at noon every first Wednesday of the month, we know today we go to the U Jabloní." Jolana and Luboš Kozákovi, U Opavice 4“When the boys started school, we realized there was not enough space for two desks in the kids’ room.” Arnold and Eva Kostkovi, U Opavice 4“I sat Lukáš on his tricycle, Roman in the stroller and off I went working in the boiler room. I worked, really, like a dog.” Věra Beinhauerová, U Opavice 4“My husband told me I couldn’t manage the job. Well, that made me mad.” Gerlinda Frajzová, U Opavice 2“The world was so mixed up that one didn’t know where one belonged.” Tereza Bočková and son Jonáš, U Opavice 4“Many people here have forgotten they also once had children and what it entails.” Lenka Štrohalmová and daughter Katka, U Opavice 4“The children’s slide at the playground outside; that was our idea.” Pavlína Newerlová, U Opavice 4“It’s like living in a village here.” Zbyněk Štěrba, U Opavice 4“We had a beautiful childhood here. This place was unique.” Věra and Josef Pavelkovi, U Opavice 3"We participated in the work brigades and in fact it was often fun." Jarmila Smolková, U Střelnice 10“They said we either sell or they will confiscate it. I was just getting married, so the money came in handy.” Jan Hampel, Director of the housing cooperative Stavbař “The state wanted to destroy all coops, although over 95% of them, if not more, worked perfectly fine.”
