We longed to live a normal life
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Irena Mrkvičková was born on 8 May 1950 in Pacov, where she lived until she was eighteen. After completing her primary education, she studied at the secondary general education school in Pacov, where she graduated in 1968. She lived through the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in her hometown, during which she changed signposts and distributed leaflets with her friends. In September of that year, she moved to Prague and began working in administration at the state-owned Konstruktiva company, where she remained until the 1990s. She married in June 1973 and she and her husband had a son in 1975 and a daughter five years later. She never joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) despite being urged to do so. During the Velvet Revolution she took part in demonstrations. After 1989 she worked as an accountant. In 2022 she lived in Prague.
