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

21. 8. 1968

Petr Hrabalik

* 1962

Dissident, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, The underground, Art and censorship

17. 11. 1989 - Demonstration at Národní třída, 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9. 5. 1960 - Amnesty of political prisoners and 5 more anniversaries

Secondary school graduation photo, 1961

PhDr. Jana Hrabětová

* 1943

Forced labour during the WW2, Relative of a political prisoner, Art and censorship

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

Portrait of Jan Hrabina in the Bohnice psychiatric hospital, summer 1974

Jan Hrabina

* 1954

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 21. 8. 1988 – 17. 11. 1989 – Street demonstrations against the communist regime

Václav Hrabý in 2022

Václav Hrabý

* 1945

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Border Guards, The Army of the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia, Farmer, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 1950 - creation of the buffer zone between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany and Austria

Jan Hrach

* 1928

Journalist, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Art and censorship

july 1938 - X. sokol slet's, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia and 2 more anniversaries

The signatories of Charter 77 and friends - from the left Karel Duda - unjustly accused for sending poisoned letters to officials, and is no longer alive. Petr Hrach in the middle and Václav Luhan on the right, who was forced to leave the former Czechoslovakia to Austria in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of the secret police ASANACE event.

Petr Hrach

* 1955 †︎ 2022

Dissident, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Hrad as a sergeant in 1967

Jan Hrad

* 1937

Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Life along the Iron Curtain

1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation and 4 more anniversaries

Jan Hrad

Jan Hrad

* 1961

Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain, Writer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war and 1 more anniversaries

Portrait photo of the witness; Prague around 1980

PhDr. Vladimíra Hradecká

* 1949

A cultural celebrity, Relative of a political prisoner, Relatives of important personalities, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 16. 1. 1969 – Jan Palach´s self-immolation , 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral

Jiří Hradecký at elementary school, 1950s

Jiří Hradecký

* 1944

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

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