The worst during communism was the terrible lying
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Jiří Neduha was born on 4 February 1949 in Prague. His father was a musician, made a living as a clerk. Mother worked as an accountant. He was the youngest of three brothers. The family fell apart soon after his birth. He spent part of his childhood with his grandparents in Česká Lípa. He had artistic tendencies, but his mother persuaded him to become an insulator. When he was eighteen, he met with his older brother Jaroslav, musician and founder of the band Extempore. During the Prague Spring, they sold his pictures together to tourists on the New Castle Stairs. To avoid serving in the Communist army, he faked suicide. After leaving the psychiatric hospital early, he was taken to the army and experienced the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in barracks. During normalization his brother faced bullying of the state security and was forced to evict in 1983 as part of the Sanitation action. George fled before leaving his brother through the Soviet Union and Turkey to Canada. He spent fourteen months in a Turkish refugee camp. After the fall of communism, he returned from Canada to Czechoslovakia and settled down in Ostrava. He wrote and directed plays for children, founded the group Sweaty Eye, published two short-story books. In the groups Třesk and Netřesk he worked with people suffering from mental illness.
