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Political prisoner

Andrei Sannikov, Prague, 2024

Andrei Sannikov Андрей Санников

* 1954

Political prisoner, Belarus, Diplomat, Dissident, Politician

Radomír Šebek (1970s)

Radomír Šebek

* 1957

Political prisoner, Failed attempt if illegal border crossing , Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witness of local events from the Communist era

Pavel Škoda in 2021

Ing. Pavel Škoda

* 1958

Witness of local events from the Communist era, Political prisoner

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Ladislav Tonar in 2018

Ladislav Tonar

* 1934

Political prisoner, Anti-communist rebel

Jan Trousílek, 1973

Jan Trousílek

* 1946

Political prisoner, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Czech community in the US, Political prisoner in the 1960‘s (ČSSR) and 1 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring

Armando Valladares - a portait photo

Armando Valladares

* 1937

Cuba, Dissident, Emigrant, Cuban Dissident, Cuban Exile and 3 more categories

Cuba after 1959

Jari Vassinger

* 1946

Political prisoner, Germany, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia and 3 more categories

9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

Vázquez Portal Manuel

Manuel Vázquez Portal

* 1951

Cuba, Dissident, Cuban Dissident, Journalist, Cuban Exile and 3 more categories

Black Spring of Cuba 2003, Cuba after 1959

Drahomíra Vitvarová as a nurse

Drahomíra Vitvarová

* 1931

Political prisoner, Member of an Illegal Church, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Anti-communist rebel

Rudolf Vojtěch in 1976

Rudolf Vojtěch

* 1952

Anti-communist rebel, Political prisoner, Dissident, The underground

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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