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Ondřej Průcha

Ondřej Průcha

* 1954

Emigrant, Illegal border crossing, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Repatriated, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

R. P. as a young man

Richard Průcha

* 1921 †︎ 2017

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Journalist

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring and 3 more anniversaries

Dana Puchnarová in 1978.

Doc. Dana Puchnarová

* 1938 †︎ 2025

Charter 77 signatory, Writer, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship and 3 more categories

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1976 – The Plastic People of the Universe trial, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Zdeněk Pukovec, 1961

Zdeněk Pukovec

* 1946

Member of Orel, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, A cultural celebrity

23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Oliver Rácz with his sister Katarína

doc. PhDr. MUDr. CSc. Oliver Rácz

* 1947

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945, Scientist, University professor and 1 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period and 4 more anniversaries

Dimitri Rafalský 2017

Dimitri Rafalský

* 1930 †︎ 2021

Emigrant, National minorities, Relative of a political prisoner, Emigrants from Russia, Students who were for political reasons expelled from school and 4 more categories

7. 11. 1917 - October Revolution in Russia, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - Arrests of Russian émigrés by the agents of SMERSH, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Jan Rajlich

RNDr. ThLic. Jan Rajlich

* 1954

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era, University professor

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia and 1 more anniversaries

Jiří Rak during military service in Cheb, 1980

Ing. Jiří Rak

* 1957

Russia, Déclassé, Boy Scouts, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial, 1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s and 13 more anniversaries

Anna Rákóczi, 1964

Anna Rákóczi

* 1957

National minorities, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Hungarians in Slovakia after 1945

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 23. 10. 1956 - Hungarian revolution of 1956 and fightings for independence

Lída Rakušanová in the late 1970s/early 1980s

Lída Rakušanová

* 1947

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Journalist, Relative of a political prisoner, Radio Free Europe, Writer and 4 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime and 5 more anniversaries

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