After they put my mother in prison, I couldn’t even bring her an orange
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Miloslav Ohlídal was born on 21 September 1941 in a small village of Konice in Haná region. His father was a butcher and a sausage maker. Yet he had to face strong competition in the village, so he left with his family for Orlické Mountains. He bought a house with a butcher’s shop in Červená Voda, which had belonged to Germans who were expelled from the country. In the early 1950s, his mother, Valerie Ohlídalová, ended up in prison, spending four months in Kladno jail. At that time, the nineteen year old Miloslav had been living with his aunt in Prague. On top of that, his father’s business had been nationalised by the communists in the early 1950s, and all of a sudden, he was just an employee in a shop that once belonged to him. After elementary school, Miloslav started training at Tesla plant in Vrchlabí, after that, he spent a year in Prague’s district of Holešovice, where he met his future wife, Marie. Before they got married, Miloslav did his 28 month compulsory military service in Slovakia. Upon his return, he got married and raised three daughters with his wife. In 2021, they had been living in the house in Červená Voda his father bought in 1946. After the 1989 revolution, Miloslav became a chairman of the Vintage car club. He held this position for 23 years.
