Border Guards

Communism

Radomír Daněk

Radomír Daněk

* 1965

Border Guards, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, The underground, Anti-communist rebel

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Daňo in 2021

Rudolf Daňo

* 1923

Secret police informer, The Partisan, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 3 more categories

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Mr. Debnár's wife

Ján Debnár

* 1934

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

25.3.1988 Candle demonstration in Bratislava, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

František Dušek

František Dušek

* 1955

Border Guards

1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jaroslav Fous 1961

Jaroslav Fous

* 1946

Border Guards

March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

As a twelve-year-old, 1958

Ladislav Fröde

* 1946

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Border Guards, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 1 more categories

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miroslav Froyda, 1954

Miroslav Froyda

* 1933 †︎ 2022

Agent of the western secret services (cold war), Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, A communist prosecutor, A communist interrogator and 6 more categories

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 21. 6. 1949 – Execution of General Heliodor Píka, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria and 2 more anniversaries

Geb1.jpg (historic)

Karel Gebauer

* 1915

Forced labour during the WW2, Border Guards

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Sándor Goják soldier, 1967

Sándor Goják

* 1947

Romania, Communist official, Border Guards

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1989 - Transition in Hungary

Jaroslav Hadraba in the 1950s (ID photo)

Jaroslav Hadraba

* 1935

Forced labour during the WW2, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 2 more anniversaries

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