Socialism was one big deception
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Jaroslav Fous was born on June 22, 1946 in Háje u Příbrami as the third of five children. During the war, his father was deployed in Germany for forced labor, from which he managed to escape. After a primary school, Jaroslav trained as a mechanical engineer and worked in a factory in Sedlčany. He completed the military service in Moravia at the border guard. He shot competitively and won the national championship in the military service. He could go to the Olympics of friendly armies to Bulgaria on the condition that he would become a professional soldier. He refused. After the war, he joined Uranové doly in the shaft 16 as a mechanical engineer for the maintenance of drilling rigs, where he worked for over twenty years. In the summer of 1969, his brother Josef emigrated first to Germany and then to Canada. They were allowed to write and make phone calls, but letters were censored and phone calls were tapped. At the same time, Jaroslav Fous got married and he has two children with his wife. Stb interrogated him several times due to contacts with his brother in exile. He was not allowed to travel anywhere for ten years. Jaroslav met his brother in 1984 in Yugoslavia, and was again investigated for unauthorized contact with a stranger. He was released to Calgary to see him in 1987. The family did not meet freely until 1990. Jaroslav Fous lives in Příbram.
