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

Výboch Petr

Petr Výboch

* 1947

Czech minority in the former Yugoslavia, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Alois Vychodil during military service, 1950s

Alois Vychodil

* 1932

Communist official, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Tomas Vydra, 1985

Tomáš Vydra

* 1960

Witness of local events from the Communist era

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Miloslav Vyhnal, Zruč nad Sázavou, 2024

Miloslav Vyhnal

* 1942

Boy Scouts, Life along the Iron Curtain, 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

At the graduation ceremony in the 1980s

Jan Vyhnálek

* 1946

Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Petr Vyleta, 1963

PaedDr. Petr Vyleta

* 1941

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Boy Scouts, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

A camp picture - Podolánky in 1994, Mr. Vymětalík is playing the accordion

Ing. Jindřich Vymětalík (Šťovík)

* 1957

Boy Scouts

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

Radomil Vyoral

Ing. Radomil Vyoral

* 1960

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

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, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster and 1 more anniversaries

František Vyšata in a contemporary photograph

František Vyšata

* 1938 †︎ 2024

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Vladimír Vyskočil in Klatovy when serving in the army. 1982

Vladimír Vyskočil

* 1961

Underage political prisoners, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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