After the occupation, he stopped shaving. During normalisation he found freedom in the sauna
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Miroslav Pacák was born on 29 November 1940 in Bílé Poličany near Dvůr Králové. His parents, Antonín Pacák and Anežka, maiden name Vernerová, ran a consumer business in the small village. They continued their business after 1945, when the Pacaks moved to Lánov near Vrchlabí. In their new home, however, two Germans still lived there until the expulsion and took care of the witness. Their subsequent departure was regretted. After 1948, his parents lost their trade. His father then worked as a labourer. In 1956, he began to study at the University of Engineering in Liberec, graduating in 1962. At the university he met his wife Sonia Čechová, who was born in Slovenia, and they married in 1963. From 1964 he worked at the Energomontáže plant in Liberec. However, in 1969, as director of the sales department, he failed to pass a background check, was suspended and fired from the company in 1971. He then worked in the JZD (Unified agriculture cooperative) in Zlata Olešnica in associated production. After August 1968 he stopped shaving in protest against the occupation. He lost his beard in June 1991 with the departure of the last Russian soldier. In 1976 he joined the Saunaklub, which he considered an island of freedom. He was also a flat track racer, and his son raced. After the Velvet Revolution, he ran a business for three decades. He has two children. In 2024 he lived in Liberec.
