The 1950s? The caretaker forced mom to do the laundry for her
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Ing. Jiří Jánský was born on 20 August 1935 in Prague. His father Václav Janský was a financial clerk, and his mother Jarmila, née Josívková was a stay-at-home spouse. Jiří spent his childhood in Košíře, Prague in a place called “Na Cibulce.” He describes his experiences from the war in detail, mainly with the Prague Uprising when his father fought at the Main Post meanwhile he and other boys were running around the streets. He remembers the arrival of the Vlasov army, the departure of Germans and also the way the so-called Revolutionary Guards treated Germans. He had a tough upbringing of his father who fought at the front during WWI, spent four years of his military service during the First Republic and he adopted a military style of upbringing despite his dislike for the army. His father hid weapons in the kitchen during the war and then used them when fighting the German occupants. Jiří Jánský graduated from French grammar school, and he graduated from the Czech Technical University in 1958. He was an air conditioning specialist in the National Project Office, and he worked there for thirty-four years. He was on a business stay in Egypt from 1962 to 1963. He joined the Party in 1966, he let himself be convinced that it would be possible to change the political regime only via the party. In August 1968, when the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, he was on a month-long sightseeing tour of France. He resigned his membership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and was removed from his leadership position. He became a widower at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s and he raised his nine-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son on his own. He got married for the third time in the 1990s and he changed jobs. He worked as a clerk at the revenue service, he got retired in 2000.
