Communists pretended to pay us; we pretended to work
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Václav Kršík was born on 27 May 1951 in Rumburk, and he and his two younger siblings spent their childhood in Hradec Králové. When he was ten years old, he moved with his parents and siblings to a three hundred kilometres distant town of Habartov in West Bohemia, where his father worked as a miner. In 1966, he started to attend the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering in Pilsen. After the secondary school-leaving exam in 1970, he went on studying at the Czech Technical University branch in Poděbrady, later in Prague. In 1974, he got married while still at university, and he successfully graduated a year later. Subsequently, he had to complete his basic military service in Brno-Řečkovice. When he returned from basic military service, he worked in the Silon Company in Planá and Lužnicí, and later in the Elitex Company in Jindřichův Hradec. After the Velvet Revolution, he became the first director of the renewed Lada Company. He started cooperating with an Austrian company Pollmann Austria in 1991 and became an executive director of a newly founded company branch. It was named C.P.A. spol., later it was called Pollmann CZ. He worked in company management until 2017.
