My political affiliation is the forest and the river
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Petr Kallista was born on April 22, 1942 in Prague. He came from a strongly anti-communist family - his uncle was a legionnaire and was imprisoned in the 1950s, and his father persistently refused to join the party. Petr followed in their footsteps; not only did he never join the Communist Party, but he also rejected Pionýr (note: the children group) since his childhood. His wish was to study at DAMU, but for political reasons this was not possible, so he eventually trained as an electromechanic and worked for a long time at the Prague Motor Vehicle Research Institute. But theater and music remained his great hobby. He played in various tramp bands and was a member of the amateur theater of small forms KOS in Velká Chuchle. He decided to enter political scene only during the Velvet Revolution. He first became a member of the Civic Forum, and after its split, he joined the ODS. In the 1990s, he was deputy mayor of Prague 3 for the area of culture. He left the ODS party in 1998 due to differences of opinion. He is an active member of the Club of Friends of Žižkov, to which he has a strong affiliation.
