People should cooperate
Pavel Palme was born on March 28, 1947 in Boskovice to a faithful family of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He spent his childhood with his parents and three siblings in a rented old house in the former Jewish quarter. In the 1950s, during the church’s official ban, the family experienced a difficult period, secretly meeting with other believers in apartments and reading the Bible and forbidden literature. He also witnessed a house search in their house. Adults and children had the biggest problems in keeping the Sabbath celebrations. In 1965 he trained at the Drukov Brno school in Ivančice and later began the basic military service in Bechyně. After returning from the war, he started working in the Lidokov company in Boskovice as a plumber. In 1968, he did not agree with the arrival of the Warsaw Pact troops and he considered emigrating. From 1978 to 1980, he completed a distance learning course for the Bible officials (a substitute for a Bible seminary). During the normalization, he continued to work as a laborer until 1985, when he was offered the position of the head of the foundry in Sloup. After fulfilling the conditions, he had set (for example, that he would never join the Communist Party and he would continue to go to church), he accepted the offer. The year before that, at the age of 37, he studied a secondary industrial school in Jedovnice and graduated. In 1989, under the conditions he had already enforced when he took the leading job position, he also began studying at the Evening University of Leninist Marxism (VUML). He took part in the events during the Velvet Revolution and, as a member of the Civic Forum, took part in the round table negotiations. He later became the vice-president of the ONV (the District National Committee) in Blansko in the areas of economy, housing, transport and agriculture, water and forestry, trade and then the trade licensing office. In 1990 he was appointed the chairman of the privatization commission for the Blansko district. He received anonymous letters, was threatened, and he also experienced mafia ways of acquiring property in a small privatization during his work activity. He was running a family bakery in Mladkov u Boskovice since 1993 and currently (2020) lives in Boskovice.