Young people should get a chance
Stanislav Doubek was born in 1947 in the village of Bozkov. As the son of an independent tradesman, he had to serve in the units working on road construction while he was doing his military service. During the events of August 1968 he took part in protest rallies and in 1970 he was sentenced to nine months of imprisonment for sedition and subversion. After his release he worked in a restaurant, in a shop and in the Kovozávod factory in Semily. After 1989 he was elected the chairman of the workers’ labour union committee. In 1994 he was elected the mayor of Bozkov, a position he kept for sixteen years.