Village table tennis team, Milan Richter 2nd from the right

In the army - recruited in 1954, served 27 months at the border (pictured left)

Důstojnická škola – hodnost četaře, na hrudi odznak vzorný pohraničník Officer training - sergeant rank, border patrol badge on his chest

Military school (1959–1960), graduated as border patrol in Bruntal (2-year programme, then received the rank of lieutenant)

17-years old

17 years old

Starshina rank

Lieutenant

Senior lieutenant

Captain

Colonel

Colonel, 2017, gathering of the Czech Border Club

1970s

1970s

Photo taken as promo for Senate candidacy in November 1996 (Czech Communist Party)

Morning hygiene at the border, Sumava

Military pledge of new recruits in As, around 1972

On a trip in Jeseniky

With future wife Anna, whom he met at the border

Svatební foto, vpravo nahoře strýc (bratr matky) František Sazima, plukovník letectva Wedding photograph, uncle Frantisek Sazima (mother's brother) top right, air force colonel

50th birthday

After receiving the title CSc.

Visit of Soviet actors at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, visiting the border patrol in Trojmezi: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, protagonist of the Soviet series Seventeen Moments of Spring (Milan Richter on the left)

Meeting the president of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak, Trojmezi (August 23, 1979)

Former GDR border patrol meeting in Berlin (discussion during the break); from the left: Dr. Milan Richter CSc., Hans Modnow (honorary chairman of PDS, MEP for PDS); back to camera: Jan Vogeltanz (interpreter), April 5, 2003