Someone who has no humanity in them and suddenly has power can really ruin your life
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Jiří Olt was born on 10 June 1955 in Chomutov. He never knew his father, but his mother remarried. His adoptive father worked in the power industry and the family moved frequently because of his work. They lived in Litvínov, Most and later in Teplice. Jiří trained as a turner at the Krušnohorské Engineering Plants and in 1974 he started his compuslory military service. There he encountered bullying and humiliation. Eventually he decided to go on a hunger strike and collapsed after he stopped drinking. For the following years, he pretended to be mentally ill so that he would not have to return to the army. He made friends with the Princ family from Rychnov and came into contact with the underground and dissent. In 1977, he signed Charter 77, was fired from his job, and his father threw him out of the house. He moved to Prague, where he lived for a time in Dana Němcová´s or Nikolaj Stankovič´s flats. He changed jobs at the People´s Publishing House, the Cleaning (Úklid) company, as a maintenance worker at Labská Mountain Chalet and later as a stonemason. He underwent many interrogations at State Security, where he was physically and psychologically abused. Since the 1980s, he has made a living as a stone sculptor and restorer. In 2025 he was living in Prague.
