Ivo Brzobohatý

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  • "People were scared, my colleague asked me, 'Are you coming tonight?' So I took a candle out of my pocket and just showed him that I had a candle in my pocket and that was all I allowed myself. It took a week in that work team before it broke, before there was a general strike. They called us into a big meeting room and held us there, but I stood up and said I had never experienced a general strike and I didn't want to miss it, and I walked out through the middle of the meeting room. A few people followed me and the others were there debating the whole general strike."

  • "I was wandering around Liberty Square and I was quite afraid. Suddenly, a parade of university students walked down Czech street and that fear fell from me. It was quite a powerful experience."

  • "Foglar's novels made me long for them, especially Pod Junáckou vlajkou (Under the Juneteenth Flag) and Devadesátka pokračuje (The Ninety Continues). I began to look for a section that would fulfill that desire, and I found that section sometime just before the holidays in seventy-two. At that time the older kids only went to boot camp and I went to my first camp in year seventy-three. It was a troop called Twenty-one. It had a clubhouse in the lovers grove, behind the King's Field station. The clubhouse is still there. In the year sixty-eight the troop was part of the scout centre Královo pole, then it became a so-called pioneer group in the place of residence."

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Ivo Brzobohatý
Ivo Brzobohatý
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Ivo Brzobohatý was born on 19 January 1962 in Brno. From childhood he enthusiastically read Jaroslav Foglar’s books and in 1972 he managed to join a troop which, although it functioned under the head of the then official pioneer organization, continued the activities of the scout center. He left the troop after five years and returned there again after his military service in the 1980s. After the Velvet Revolution, Ivo Brzobohatý, nicknamed Ještěr, became involved in the development of the renewed Junák. He became the first administrator of Kaprálův mlýn, where an environmental education centre was established. He founded the Fonticulus scout course and was active in several European scouting projects.