The Sportsmen | Memory of Nations

Dana Beldová, married name Spálenská, at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics

Dana Spálenská

* 1950

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

As a young man

Antonín Španinger

* 1926 †︎ 2010

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), The Sportsmen

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age

Josef Šperka

Josef Šperka

* 1927 †︎ 2018

The Sportsmen, Bata school Graduate

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

Dušan Srb pictured in the second half of the 1950s

Dušan Srb

* 1941

The Sportsmen, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Life along the Iron Curtain

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Josef Srnský (right) with his co-driver, actor Pavel Nový, 1987

Josef Srnský

* 1946

The Sportsmen, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jiří Štancl

Jiří Štancl

* 1949

The Sportsmen

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

Miloš Starý at the age of twenty-five (1970s)

Miloš Starý

* 1954

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Artists

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Hockey poster on the occasion of Father's Day - Peter Šťastný with sons in hockey gear, June 2005

Peter Šťastný

* 1956

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Richard Štegmann

Richard Štegmann

* 1943

The Sportsmen, Soutěž Příběhy 20. století

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Ivan Stehlík, older photo

Ivan Stehlík

* 1946

The Sportsmen, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 18. - 21. 8. 1969 – mass demonstrations against Soviet occupation

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