One was still afraid of something during the communism era
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Jaroslav Peprník was born on February 11, 1927 in Ivančice. In his last year at the secondary grammar school, he was sent for the total deployment together with the whole class to the aircraft factory in Bučovice in September 1944. The parts for the Messerschmitts Bf 109 were manufactured there. After the Second World War, he graduated from the combination of fields - English language and history at Masaryk University in Brno. Three days after the graduation ceremony in 1950, he had to enlist in basic military service and was subsequently assigned to auxiliary technical battalions. He then served for two years at the ground staff in the Gottwald shaft in Horní Suchá and the other two in Brno in the military construction industry. He was not released until 1954 and subsequently worked at the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University. He was not allowed to lecture during the normalization period. He could only publish and conduct practical language exercises. His activities were also closely monitored by the State Security. He could return to his work only after the fall of communism. He has also written a number of textbooks and monographs. In 2019 he still lived in Olomouc.
