Now watch a clip of Lilly Pavlová's testimony, describing the late 1930s in Ústí nad Labem.
**Lilly Pavlová **was born in October 1918 in Ústí nad Labem, her maiden name was Fischlová.
After emigration to England, she worked in a factory in Leicester, was impressed by the determination of the local communists, helped them organize a strike and became a communist herself. At the end of 1943, among the refugees from Czechoslovakia, she met Josef Pavel, a fighter of the International Brigades in Spain. She became pregnant, they got married.
After the end of the war, they returned home. Josef Pavel was already a significant figure in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and participated in the preparations for seizing power in the country. In February 1948, he was the commander of the communist strike units, the so-called People's Militia. In 1951, he was arrested, labeled a traitor, conspirator and spy and sentenced to 25 years. He was amnestied relatively soon, in 1968 he became Minister of the Interior and tried to change the status of former political prisoners. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, he was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and dismissed from all positions.
The interview was recorded on November 5, 1996 in Prague.
What do you think caused the change in the behavior of Lilly's classmates?