They wanted to make the priests in the church smell the dung

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At the time of the forced collectivization of agriculture, Bohumil Robeš lived in Holubice, a traditional rural agricultural area. He witnessed the practices of the communist officials, who robbed the traditional local peasants of their family property in the course of the collectivization. He remembers one of the officials who was responsible for the persecution of the village population: “When they collectivized the farms here, he was responsible for the operations. He wanted to make the priests in the church smell the dung and so he had a cattle farm built right next to the church on the hill. They built it there although it was on a hill and they then had to pump the water uphill. They still have to get the water there from the areas situated below the hill until today. This was a completely silly decision. What was interesting about it is that these communist officials who reigned here all came here from different parts of the country – they weren't locals but foreigners. I think that the locals would never lend themselves to this. Maybe that they had planned this already as early as during the war.” Bohumil Robeš became a member of the resistance organization SODAN in the 1950s. SODAN fought against the injustice perpetrated by the Communist party. He later spent many years in Communist prisons. In 2002, he published the book ‘The Times of the Elimination’ in which he recalls his experiences in prison.

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Bohumil Robeš

Bohumil Robeš was born in 1930 in Holubice. Since his youth, he was immensely interested in literature and theater and early on, he became a member of a number of amateur ensembles of various community theaters. Due to a poor cadre profile assessment, he wasn't admitted to the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) in Prague. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested for his connections to the resistance group SODAN (The Boy-Scout Organization for Democracy and Independence) and sentenced to five years in prison. He went through various prison camps located at uranium mines in Jáchymov or "Vojna" in Příbram, where he took part in the so-called "noodle rebellion". As a political prisoner in Leopoldov, he refused to work, although it was mandatory for all prisoners. For his refusal, he was punished by frequent and protracted stays in the so-called "correction". Even while in prison, he continued to openly speak out against oppression, humiliation and injustice. As a result, his prison term was extended twice in Leopoldov. As Mr. Robeš was not to be broken by the reprisals, he was sent to a psychiatric clinic. He was finally released from prison in 1967, after having spent thirteen and a half years in prison. During the short period of the late 1960s and the early 1970s, when he worked as a warehouseman, he was able to devote himself to journalism and published numerous articles in magazines, interviews for the Brno Broadcast, and he even became the member of a theater advisory board. However, the advent of the so-called "Normalization" brought an end to his engagement in the cultural sphere. After 1989, he became a member of the municipal council of Holubice, wrote three books and took an active part in public life, not only in his native village.

Holubice, the farmers’ collective (JZD)

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The JZD in Holubice was created in the beginning of the 1950s in the course of the first wave of collectivization. The majority of the estates and the fields were acquired by the forceful expropriation of the local landowners. It was later united with the JZD in Velešovice and the combined JZD was called JZD Velešovice – Holubice. It encompassed 1047,4 hectares of land and in 1967 counted in excess of 200 employees. It was dissolved after 1989.

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They wanted to make the priests in the church smell the dung

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