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Jan Měšt'ák in 2022

Doc. MUDr. Jan Měšťák , CSc.

* 1944

Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Jolana Mezerová (en)

Jolana Mezerová

* 1934

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Cut-out from an archival photo of Václav Mezřický

Doc.,JUDr. Václav Mezřický

* 1934 †︎ 2018

Boy Scouts, Lawyer, Environmentalist, University professor

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, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

Jana Mičánková, née Vovsová

Jana Mičánková

* 1946

Relative of a political prisoner, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Michal

* 1961

Art and censorship

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 6 more anniversaries

Vilem Míchal - 1963

Vilém Michal

* 1932

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954)

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 1 more anniversaries

In the army in Cheb, 1969

Bedřich Michalec

* 1949

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Michálek, Jihlava, 1961

Jan Michálek

* 1935

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Border Guards, Artists

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Michálek in 2022

Vladimír Michálek

* 1956

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

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

Milan Michalica in 2022

Colonel (ret.) Mgr. Milan Michalica

* 1937

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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