26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

26. 4. 1986

Renata Straková

* 1959

Poland, National minorities, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

26.8. 1980 Solidarity strike in Wroclaw , 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

A soldier Ludek Svoboda

Luděk Svoboda

* 1933

PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

27. 5. 1942 - Assassination of R. Heydrich, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Světlana Synáková in 1990

Světlana Synáková

* 1971

Emigrants from Russia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Jan Tůma, 2021

Ing. Jan Tůma

* 1948

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Milan Uhlíř

Ing. Milan Uhlíř

* 1958

National minorities, The relative of a political prisoner, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Farmer and 1 more categories

1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975 - Vietnam War, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 2 more anniversaries

In the first class, 1987

Oksana Valenková

* 1980

Ukraine

Ukraine in 1986–1991, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Jiří Vaníček in 2011

Doc. RNDr. Jiří Vaníček , CSc.

* 1944

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Politician, The relative of a political prisoner, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 9. 5. 1962 – An extensive amnesty and 6 more anniversaries

Jaroslav Vinický before starting his military service

Jaroslav Vinický

* 1963

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, National minorities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 3 more anniversaries

Vjačeslav Viskočil when serving in the Red Army

Lieutenant (ret.) Vjačeslav Viskočil

* 1927 †︎ 2014

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Volhynian Czechs, Red Army soldier, Czech minority in the former USSR, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1932 - 1933 - Holodomor - Great famine in Ukraine, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Marian Visternicean during two-year basic military service in Odessa, 1985

Marian Visternicean

* 1966

Soldier of the Soviet Army, Artists, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Moldova

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1979 - 1989 - Sovětská invaze do Afghánistánu, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, 2. 3. - 21. 7. 1992 - Konflikt v Podněstří

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