Border Guards

Communism

Czesława Wałkiewicz

Czesława Wałkiewicz

* 1934

Poland, Border Guards, Poles living in Kresy (Poland´s Eastern Borderlands)

1945 - 1946 Resettlement of Poles in the "Regained lands"

Josef Weinfurt, Basic military service, Janovice 1971

Josef Weinfurt

* 1950

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain, Border Guards

Miluška Zedníčková (Břečková)

Miluška Zedníčková

* 1924

Participant in antifascist resistance, National minorities, The Partisan, Sokol, Border Guards

29. 8. 1944 - April 1945 - The Slovak National Uprising, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State

As a young man

Cyril Žilka

* 1933

Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period

Karol Žižkovský during his military service (1957 to 1959)

Karol Žižkovský

* 1938

Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity, Art and censorship and 2 more categories

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 14. 3. 1953 – Klement Gottwald’s death, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin and 6 more anniversaries

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