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Václav Šulista was born on February 9, 1930 in České Budějovice, where his parents ran a well-known textile shop. He graduated from the J. V. Jirsík Grammar School in Budějovice and in 1949 he began studying his dream field - pharmacy at Charles University in Prague. After four successfully completed semesters, the witness received a notice of cancellation of the postponement of the start of military service and had to enlist in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions to the Karviná mines. He served here for twenty-nine months. After the war, he managed to study pharmacy at the J. E. Purkyně University in Brno and worked as a pharmacist all his life. In 1990 he joined the Union of Auxiliary Technical Battalions. In 2020, Václav Šulista lived with his wife Božena in Drahotěšice, South Bohemia.