Anti-communist rebel | Memory of Nations

Jan Decker

Jan Decker

* 1928 †︎ 2020

Forced labour during the WW2, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The Sportsmen

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 26. 5. 1946 – The last “free” parliamentary election in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and 2 more anniversaries

Valentyna Platonivna Denysjuk, 1957

Valentyna Platonivna Denysjuk

* 1929

Participant in antifascist resistance, Prisoner of a Soviet concentration camp, Gulag, Anti-communist rebel, Lidé pomáhající partyzánům během 2. svět. války, Structures of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (radio operators, partisans, etc.) and 6 more categories

22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 17.9.1939 - Soviet invasion of Poland , Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950 and 3 more anniversaries

Witness in 1963

Eva Dlouhá

* 1945

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Relative of a political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel, The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era and 1 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

René Dlouhý in the late 1940s

René Dlouhý

* 1934 †︎ 2021

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Underage political prisoners, Sokol

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Rudolf in 1953

Rudolf Dobiáš

* 1934

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Anti-communist rebel, Boy Scouts, Forced Labour Camps (1948 - 1954), Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person and 1 more categories

9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners, 22. 8. 1963 – Start of court restitutions, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

With his mother and sister as a child

Josef Doškář

* 1943

Theresienstadt Ghetto, Anti-communist rebel, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 3 more anniversaries

Doucha Jaroslav

Jaroslav Doucha

* 1957

Dissident, Anti-communist rebel, Charter 77 signatory, The underground

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

Miroslav Drábek, summer 1981

Miroslav Drábek

* 1964

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Anti-communist rebel

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

Václav Dubec

Václav Dubec

* 1929 †︎ 2011

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), National minorities, Volhynian Czechs

8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 10. 7. 1946 – Agreement on Volhynian Czechs option with the USSR, 31. 5. – 8. 6. 1950 – Milada Horáková’s trial

Witness Karol Dubovan as a young man

Ing. Karol Dubovan

* 1953

Member of an Illegal Church, Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Politician and 20 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities and 20 more anniversaries

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