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Vladimíra Cetkovská, born Hornová, was born in Olomouc on May 15, 1941 to Eva and Vladimír Horn. Both parents were strongly religious practicing Catholics. The family lived through the Second World War mainly in Olomouc. At that time, her father could not find a job, and the Horns then lived off what he illegally smuggled from his parents - farmers from Dřevnovice in Haná. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, this was punishable by death. The story of Vladimíra Cetkovská is to some extent closely linked to her father. Vladimír Horn joined the Czechoslovak army after the war in 1945. Faith and the military, two absolute opposites, he never internally came to terms with the linking of the two, which led to the falling apart of the family. Vladimíra was in the third grade when, in 1949, she organized an escape to an unauthorized mass during a school trip. Thanks to the fact that her father was a civil servant, neither she nor her sister Eva had problems with admission to high schools and universities. After grammar school in Olomouc, she studied remotely at the University of Russian Language and Literature in Prague. She graduated in 1961. She dedicated her professional life to teaching. Despite the fact that teachers during the communist era were under strong pressure to cooperate with the regime, Vladimíra Cetkovská never joined the party - even though she was promised the position of deputy and later head teacher. Shortly after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, she could not come to terms with the fact that people who, for example, belonged to the State Security during the previous regime, suddenly appeared in the ranks of the Civic Forum. That’s why she refused to enter it, even though it was offered to her several times. During the 1990s, Vladimíra Cetkovská became the head teacher of the Zeyer Primary School in Olomouc.
