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Miloš Blažek (* 1926  †︎ 2019)

No regime can ban personal friendship.

  • born 7th May 1926

  • 1937

  • , member of the Scout organisation Legio Angelica

  • took his Scout Promise shortly before the signing of the Munich Agreement

  • during the Prague Revolt, worked in charity

  • after the war, leader of the 318th Scout Troop, co-founder of the Ecumenical Forestry School

  • completed studies of History and Geography at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and became a teacher

  • 1959, arrested for propagating the Scouting ideal, accused (among other things) of owning a picture of Hitler, sentenced to 4.5 years of prison

  • 1960, released due to an amnesty of the President of the Republic

  • 2003, received the highest Scout honour - The Order of the Silver Wolf

  • still active in the Scout Movement

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