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At the scooter race, he was first then; Liberec, 1947

Private (ret.) Jaromír Pasecký

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Meeting of the Transnational Radical Party, Špalíček - Jiří Pavlíček

Jiří Pavlíček

* 1945

Dissident, Border Guards

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Pavlík

Colonel (ret.) Josef Pavlík

* 1927 †︎ 2022

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Border Guards

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

A historical photo

Jaroslav Pekárek

* 1945

Border Guards, Life along the Iron Curtain, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

Karel Peterka in 1970s

Karel Peterka

* 1948

Border Guards, Witness of local events from the Communist era

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

Josef Petýrek in 2011

Josef Petýrek

* 1937

Border Guards, Memory of vanished settlements

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 1945 - The liberation of the concentration camps, 14. 3. 1939 – The foundation of the Slovak State and 1 more anniversaries

pilik.jpg (historic)

Miroslav Pilík

* 1937

Communist official, Border Guards

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1951 - creation of the restricted border area along the Czechoslovakian border with Western Germany and Austria

In the uniform of first lieutenant - 1965

Dalibor Plšek

* 1939

Border Guards

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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

Stating his position after 1968

Karel Pokorný

* 1933

Border Guards, Relative of a political prisoner, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Art and censorship

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

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