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5: CASE STUDY 2: THE CZECH/AUSTRIAN BORDER The western section of this southern building was used for official purposes as offices, communications rooms and for admin purposes. Some of the rooms are likely to have been used as archives. Seeing the vast amounts of papers generated by the border guard at the Military archive in Brno, storage must have been required for at least some of these reports, something that is easily forgotten in today’s digital world. Little evidence survives here to be able to give us an indication of exactly what the different rooms were used for. Between the official and the kitchen areas a communal room was located where official meetings were held. A square hole in the wall and the mountings for a projector in the adjacent room indicates that films were shown here (Figure 84–85). When I enter this room with my guide he refers to it as a ‘Propaganda room’ as if it was obvious there would be one of those. He explains how most official places and institutions had these types of rooms to show communist propaganda, or ‘political schooling’ as the official term was (David 2010 pers. comm. 13 th October). Figure 85: Mounts for a projector in room adjacent to ‘propaganda room’ at Hájenka border guard station. Photo: Anna McWilliams 2011. 163
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE IRON CURTAIN The northern section of building 1 was mainly used as sleeping quarters with at least four of the rooms here used as dormitories (Figure 86). A picture taken in one of these rooms in 1988–1990 shows a minimum of six bunk beds in this room (Army Forum Website Image 1) but it is possible that there were more that could not be seen on the picture. A total of 40 soldiers were housed here at any one time. Only the soldiers lived on the premises with officers provided with houses for them and their families in Vranov nad Dyji (Tomas, 2010, pers. comm. 14 th October). Figure 86: Corridor of sleeping quarters at Hájenka border guard station. Anna McWilliams 2011. Graffiti found in two of the dormitories show how the soldiers were counting down the days until they were to finish their service. One of these was written in English, stating ‘I very look forward to civilian’. Written in another room was the suggestion “burn the officers’ nest”. There is also graffiti comparing time spent at the station as being in jail. The dates in the graffiti indicate that the majority of it was written towards the final years of the compound’s period of use during the late 1980s and 1990s. In one 164
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