My father participated in the battles for Kiev and the Dukla operation with the First Czechoslovak Army Corps of L. Svoboda
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Jozef Múdry was born on December 11, 1943 in the village of Paňa, near the town of Vráble in the Nitra Region. During World War II, Jozef’s father Ján had to enlist in the Hungarian Army at the age of nineteen. After basic training, he went to the Eastern Front, where he fought against the Soviet Union. In 1944, he escaped from the Hungarian Army, was taken prisoner, and then joined the First Czechoslovak Army Corps of Ludvík Svoboda. In 1944, he participated in the battles for Kiev and subsequently in the Carpathian-Dukla Operation. He was seriously wounded in the battles for Liptovský Mikuláš and was treated in Kiev after his leg was amputated. After the war, he worked as a switchboard operator in a telephone exchange and gradually rose to the position of secretary of the Municipal National Committee in Paňa. Despite having a severe health handicap, he was a very popular, cheerful, and sociable person. Jozef attended the primary school in Paňa for the first five years, later continuing in Cetín. After finishing primary school in 1961, he went to study in Bratislava at the Specialized Communications School, where he trained as a signalman in 1964. After completing his apprenticeship in 1964, Jozef entered basic military service and during two years of military service worked as a radio frequency detector, on which foreign armies communicated. After finishing his military service in 1966, he continued his trade and got a job at the Slovak Telecommunications company in Nitra. In 1967, he met his wife Helena, with whom they stayed to live in Vrábld after their marriage. In March 1968, the monument took part in four-week military maneuvers. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked in telecommunications, from where he retired after forty years. Today he lives with his wife in Vráble.
