21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops | Memory of Nations

Zuzana Motlova, 1959

Zuzana Motlová

* 1942

Victim of forced relocation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

František Motyčka

František Motyčka

* 1924

Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces

Picture of Josef Motyčka, mid 1970s

Josef Motyčka

* 1944

Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Ivan Motýl during the Eye Direct recording, 2016

Ivan Motýl

* 1967

The underground, Journalist, Writer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

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Kamila Moučková

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Dissident, Déclassé, Relative of a political prisoner, Radio Free Europe, Charter 77 signatory and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 22. 8. 1968 – Extraordinary congress (the “Vysočany Congress”) of KSČ and 4 more anniversaries

Irena Wüschová, graduation in 1983

MUDr. Irena Moudrá Wünschová

* 1957

Dissident, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

A portrait

Jaroslava Moudříková roz. Karbanová

* 1926 †︎ 2018

Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising and 5 more anniversaries

Jan Moudrý (sitting on the chair in the very front) during World War II with some of his family members

Jan Moudrý

* 1938

Germany, National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 1 more anniversaries

František Možný on a contemporary photo wearing a PTP uniform.

Ing. František Možný

* 1930 †︎ 2024

Member of Orel, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 6 more anniversaries

Milan Možný

* 1944

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

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

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