31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia | Memory of Nations

Jaromír Piskoř in 1980s

Jaromír Piskoř

* 1962

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, The underground, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Current photo of former football player Ján Pivarník, from filming in 2022, in Bratislava. (number one)

Ján Pivarník

* 1947

The Sportsmen

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, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Ján Plachetka as a young man

Ing. Ján Plachetka

* 1945

Writer, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain and 3 more anniversaries

Witness Peter Plichta

Peter Plichta

* 1948 †︎ 2023

Hungary, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Person who lived in South Slovakia after the First Vienna Award 1938 - 1945 and 3 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter” and 2 more anniversaries

Before leaving for Everest 1998

Jana Plulíková, rod. Benková

* 1966

The Student activist during the Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, Witness of local events from the Communist era

31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Rudolf Plzák; 1967

Rudolf Plzák

* 1952

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era

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

Zbigniew Podleśny in 1966 as twentyseven years old

Zbigniew Marian Podleśny

* 1939

National minorities, Poles in Regained Lands, 1945 - 1956, Slovak-Polish relations in years 1918 - 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Poland

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Milan Pokoradi during eyd recording

Milan Pokoradi

* 1948

Hungary, Holocaust, Illegal border crossing, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, People helping Jews during WWII and 13 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps and 17 more anniversaries

Mária Potočná

* 1954

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 10 more anniversaries

Witness Igor Prieložný during eyd recording.

Igor Prieložný

* 1957

Political prisoner, The Sportsmen, Relatives of important personalities

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich , Games of the XXIII Olympiad, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and 2 more anniversaries

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