Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

Ondrej Páleník in 2024

Lieutenant General (ret.) Ing. Ondrej Páleník

* 1965

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era, War veteran after 1989

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

A historical photo

Jaroslav Pekárek

* 1945

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

Olga Pešoutová in 2016, 120th anniversary of the birth of Colonel Zdeněk Vltavský

Olga Pešoutová

* 1930 †︎ unknown

French Foreign Legion, Diplomat, Victim of forced relocation, Parašutisté vycvičení během druhé světové války ve Velké Británii, The Partisan and 5 more categories

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR and 4 more anniversaries

Miroslav Picek in period photo

Miroslav Picek

* 1941

Forced labour during the WW2, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Memory of vanished settlements, The Partisan, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army and 6 more categories

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Colonel Jaroslav Piskáček

Ing., Colonel Jaroslav Piskáček

* 1926 †︎ 2019

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Participant in Czechoslovak resistance during WW2

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, Fights with Bandera's forces and 2 more anniversaries

Libor Plíšek in ČSLA uniform

Pplk.v.v. Libor Plíšek

* 1945

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Rudolf Plzák; 1967

Rudolf Plzák

* 1952

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Stanislav Pohořal

Stanislav Pohořal

* 1947

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Déclassé, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Pokorný as a first-year student at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně Military Medical Academy in Hradec Králové (renamed VLVDÚ JEP in 1958), 1957

Doc. MUDr. Jan Pokorný , DrSc.

* 1939

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Scientist

19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Karel Polanský, 1968

Karel Polanský

* 1945

Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

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