After Munich the Republic was – it was simply left in the lurch and it was hardly possible to want from President Beneš to decide whether to defend ourselves against the German superiority or not
Antonín Kasík was born on 3rd January 1918 in Komárov near Beroun. He served out as a chef and before the war he worked in the National House in Vinohrady in Prague. In 1938 he went to the recruitment though, but due to the signing of the Munich diktat he didn´t join the army any more. At that time he worked as the chief of the kitchen in the Joint-Stock ironworks in Komárov, where he also founded an eight-member unit of the communist resistance organization Předvoj (Vanguard). It was distributing leaflets in the surrounding villages and Antonín Kasík himself was obstructing transport of produced grenades, for the resistance movement he found a map of the military area in Brdy and was delivering food to people keeping out of the Gestapo in a forest hiding place. In February 1945 all his colleagues were taken into custody by the Gestapo and many of the people from his group ended up on the gallows on 2nd May 1945. Antonín Kasík was not arrested and at the close of the war he started to work again - he was preparing leaflets and proclamations to the nation. In May, when the uprising broke out in Prague, he even made up a unit of thirteen soldiers from the first Republic who went to help to Prague. After the war he went for another six months to the military service, he entered the Czechoslovak Communist Party and until 1967, when he was retired, he worked for the Public Security (Police) in the department of economy. In 1968 he was against the entry of the armies of the Warsaw contract and in the same year he quit the party. For twenty five years he then worked as a trainer in the ice hockey club Sparta Prague, he founded there a tournament called Memorial of the director Martin Frič. Later he wrote a chronicle of the ice hockey club Sparta Prague.
