Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Wenceslas Square, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Wenceslas Square, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, the first soldiers at Na Poříčí, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Wenceslas Square, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Czechoslovak Radio, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Czechoslovak Radio, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Wenceslas Square, Melantrich, 21 August 1968

Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops, Strašnice, taken from a telephone booth, August 1968

Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Goldstücker, ČKD canteen, 22 August 1968

Jan Palach's funeral, 25 January 1969

Jan Palach's funeral, 25 January 1969

Eduard Kürsten in 2003

Eduard Kürsten in 2003

Jan Werich's address in Lucerna, 1969

Witness Kristina Folprechtová in the Memory of Nation Studio in 2024

Kristina Folprechtová in 2024

From the 1980s onwards, visual artists would regularly meet in Lubenec in the local community centre, and the witness (left, at the head of the table) took an active part in the gatherings.

The North Bohemian artists called their regular meetings in Lubenec the Evenings of Invention and School of Artistic Thinking

Kristina Folprechtová (centre) and her husband (right) were among the main organisers of the Lubenec art meetings

Artist meeting in Lubenec, Kristina Folprechtová is at right, 1980s

The witness's daughter Jitka (pictured) has an artistic talent like her mother and creates stained glass artwork.

In the 1980s, prominent art theorists of the time came to Lubenec for art events and lectured, including Igor Zhoř, pictured right.

The exhibition in Lubenec in 1988 featured a work by Ivan Kafka titled "The Shaky Peak" which, like others, carried a hidden meaning referring to the collapsing communist regime.

Jaroslav Dopita in 2024

Jaroslav Dopita in 2024