Border Guards

Communism

Ing. František Merta

* 1944

Communist official, Border Guards, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77

Contemporary photo

Jiří Minařík

* 1938 †︎ 2012

Emigrant, Border Guards

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 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 and 2 more anniversaries

Jozef as a junior pilot

Ing. Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Jozef Moravanský

* 1936 †︎ 2021

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Border Guards, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Josef Morávek, period photo

Colonel (ret.) Josef Morávek

* 1939 †︎ 2024

Border Guards, Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia

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

Old portrait

Petr Motejl

* 1946 †︎ 2022

Border Guards

Nedved_Josef.jpg (historic)

Private Josef Nedvěd

* 1931 †︎ unknown

Border Guards

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

On the graduation photo

Miroslav Netolický

* 1933 †︎ 2023

Border Guards

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

Oldřich Palata in uniform during his university military training at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague, 1963

Oldřich Palata

* 1943

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, A cultural celebrity, Border Guards, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

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

František Palička

František Palička

* 1939 †︎ 2017

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Boy Scouts, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 1 more categories

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, July - septemper - Aktion Ř - forceful concentration of Czech nuns

At the scooter race, he was first then; Liberec, 1947

Private (ret.) Jaromír Pasecký

* 1938

New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Border Guards, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 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

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