My parents lost their farm by joining the JZD (Unified Agriculture Cooperative)
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Miroslav Pacák was born on May 1, 1934 in Hranice na Moravě as the second of four children, his parents had a small farm in Velké u Hranice, which they lost during collectivization. After 1948 they joined the JZD. As a child he lived through the local war events and the liberation of the village in May 1945, when first German and then Soviet soldiers were accommodated there. He trained as an electrician. After his apprenticeship, from 1952-1954, he served at the airport in Košice, with the splicers. A year after the war he went abroad for work, spending two years in Cuba and seventeen years in Iran. He was never interested in politics, he lived by his work. He did not join the Communist Party. He did not experience the Velvet Revolution in 1989 any more. In 2025, at the time of the interview, he lived in Náměšť na Hané.
