Road to destruction

If someone nostalgically remembers the period after the „Victory February 1948“, then certainly not the producers of Olomouc cheese! It was a time of severe devastation and general decline for this line of business. The communists relentlessly tunnelled (robbed) one factory after another, then canceled them and transported what was left usable elsewhere. And there the destruction repeated itself…

1945 – 1950

Crises have always reduced the number of manufacturers by up to a third (from roughly 150 during the economic boom to around 50), and it was no different even after World War II. During the 5 years of peace between 1945 and 1950, however, another twenty ceased operations. Reason? The removal of German producers and difficulties with the supply of cottage cheese, which was not freely available for purchase and was allocated in so-called contingents.

1950-1990

When the communists decided to make their own arrangements in Olomouc cheese industry as well (that was in 1949), they did not mess with themselves. It didn't matter if the company had two people or a hundred - they were all confiscated. Then came the purges.

Of the 31 manufacturers, six did not survive on January 1, 1950, another 8 ended the following year. In April 1951, there were only 16 of them, i.e. half! But the destruction of factories continued, in 1962 there were only 10 factories and only 4 survived the Velvet Revolution. Sucking them to death and then abolishing them was how a „developed socialist society“ was built!

In 1990 only four operations were operating. Dolní Čermná and Letohrad disappeared shortly afterwards, leaving only two restored fabrics in Loštice.

Timeline

How time went by and how factories of our smelly Olomouc cheese disappeared

The timeline shows the liquidation of individual factories. These are marked with the names of the former owners, so they were internally different even after 1950, when they were nationalized.

The fate of Tvarůžky Loštice hung in the balance

Maybe in memories this period looks pink, but the reality was different. Almost no exports were made, but mainly no investments were made. And it was just canceled and liquidated. Both operations in Loštice were threatened with extinction. Both were in a deplorable condition, especially the local factory „Pivný“ (you can see it from the window), the other across Sokolská street „Dubský“ was a little better.

It was planned to cancel them and transfer production closer to the sources - to Krnov to the new cottage cheese factory or to southern Bohemia. That would be it! As we know from „building bright tomorrows“, the comrades would surely succeed only in the first step: cancellation!