I did not believe that the regime would fall. I used to see the system of henchmen and informers every day

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Radomír Janhuba was born on 28 February 1954 in Mohelnice. He studied at Secondary Technical School in Olomouc from 1969 to 1973 and he then started to study at Mechanical Faculty of Mining University in Ostrava. He got in touch with illegal Unification Church during his studies in Olomouc. State Security came for him to his flat in Ostrava during first year of his studies in Autumn 1973, it was followed by custody and a court case. Finally, he was unconditionally sentenced for sedition to serve 15 months and to a year of additional protective surveillance. He served his sentence in Pilsen prison in Bory from 1974 to 1975. He joined an artillery regiment in Jemnice after the end of the additional protective surveillance. He worked for South Moravian Waterworks and Sewerage company in Jemnice since the end of the 1970s. He studied at University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague from 1979 to 1985. Because of his “criminal” past, he could not be in charge in the Waterworks company and he could not start working in Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant in the 1980s. He was rehabilitated by court after the Velvet Revolution. He did many different jobs after revolution and he got retired in 2017. Radomír Janhuba was living in his native home in Mohelnice during the time of shooting of the interview (2021).