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Věra Sosnarová – a copy of a photo made by Soviets in 1964

Věra Sosnarová

* 1931 †︎ 2024

Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ondřej Soukup as a student of the Moscow History and Archive Institute, Moscow, 1988

Ondřej Soukup

* 1971

Ukraine, Russia, Historian, Journalist

Perestroika, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Jela Sovová as a young girl

Jela Sovová

* 1944

Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, The Partisan, Anti-communist rebel, Participant in antifascist resistance, Sokol and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering and 6 more anniversaries

Petr Špinler

Petr Špinler

* 1935 †︎ 2023

Member of Orel, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Pravoslav Špoula - 1944

Pravoslav Špoula

* 1929

Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Relative of a political prisoner, Border Guards and 3 more categories

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Anna Šrotýřová in 1950

Anna Šrotýřová

* 1920

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 5 more anniversaries

Martin Štainer, the student

Martin Štainer

* 1967

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět, 18 December 2011 Václav Havel died

Ivan Staněk

* 1954

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ludmila Stáňová in her graduation year, 1964

Ludmila Stáňová

* 1946

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia and 2 more anniversaries

Richard Stára, Kolín 1974

Richard Stára

* 1955

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

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