Nobody knew what to expect at the radio station
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Vladimír Mikuláš was born on 20 November 1947 in Dobřany near Pilsen to parents Vlasta and Karel Mikuláš. After finishing primary school, he trained as a milling cutter at the Škoda factory in Pilsen. After completing his basic military service, he joined the National Security Corps (SNB) in January 1968 and spent the first day of the Soviet occupation as a patrolman at Czechoslovak Radio. At the time of normalisation he was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), which he had joined shortly before. In 1974 he was unexpectedly dismissed from SNB as well. He drove as a taxi driver until the 1990s before rejoining the police. He worked as an operations officer and inspector at the Police Headquarters. In 2002, he published his first book Policejní úsměvy (Police Smiles), and in 2016 his partially autobiographical novel Everyone Has Their Own Destiny. At the time of redcording, in 2023, he was living in South Bohemia near Kostelec nad Vltavou.
