Vladislav Cée

* 1946

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  • "I've always wondered, how is that possible? During the war, the Gestapo did the same atrocities. But it was war and they were our enemies. God forbid that I should want to make excuses for them. No. I put fascism on the same level as communism. But how is it possible that a Czech could do this to a Czech? They spoke the same language. At the time, I didn't understand that such a thing could exist. I am saying that during the war one took it to mean that they were enemies, they were Nazis. But by the time the war was over... When there was peace... Just for the simple reason that those who don't go with us, go against us... I think everybody knows that. That's a history that can't be changed. That existed."

  • "I know it was in the second or third grade, when I had to go up to the podium and the teacher told the children that I was the son of a traitor to the nation... I didn't understand it at the time, but I remember that they all got red scarves and were pioneers. Only I didn't get one. Although in the end the director somehow pushed it through and I got the scarf and became a pioneer. But not at first. I remember tears flowing, being the black sheep of the class. That everyone was a pioneer, but I couldn't be one. Those are the memories that stick in my mind. But they're memories I didn't even tell my children. About what everything was like. Because I just didn't want to."

  • "I know from my mother that his best friends came for my father. The friends he had associated with the most. They came to our flat in their uniforms to tell him to go somewhere with them, that they needed to discuss something with him. So my father left, and after a while a neighbour came to my mother asking what had happened to my father. She said she had seen him being handcuffed outside and put in a car... And he hasn't been back since. That's what I remember my mother telling me..."

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He was standing in front of the blackboard and the whole class was looking at him. The son of a traitor to the nation

Vladislav Cée, 1965
Vladislav Cée, 1965
photo: archive of Vladislav Cée

Vladislav Cée was born on 29 August 1946 in the maternity hospital in Ostrava-Zábřeh. His father Ladislav Cée came from Železný Brod and worked in the police. In October 1949, his father was arrested by the communist State Security, imprisoned, interrogated and tortured. In a fabricated trial known as “Buchal and associates” he was sentenced to death and executed on August 1, 1951. Mother and children had to leave Ostrava, the authorities confiscated all his father’s property, and Vladislav Cée grew up in his father’s native Železný Brod. At primary school he experienced humiliation from teachers who called him “the son of a traitor to the nation”. Despite problems with admission to study, he graduated from glass school, majoring in chemistry. He got a job in the waterworks in Frýdek-Místek and moved to his native region. However, under pressure from State Security, he had to leave the waterworks and look for a new job. Vladislav Cée’s whole life was marked by the judicial murder of his father. In 2025 he was living in Paršovice, near Hranice in Moravia.