Each country sent me the highest award for victory over fascism.
Lukáš Polanský was born in 1925 into a poor family in Subcarpathian Rus, Czechoslovakia. He had five siblings and his mother died when he was ten years old. During his childhood he used to help his father who worked as a lumberjack. Thanks to his great grades he went to grammar school in Chust after finishing elementary school. After the Hungarian occupation in 1939 he was sent to forced labour at a field. He returned home for night and took care of his brothers and sisters. Later he and his two schoolmates were placed into a camp in Ukraine. They decided to escape and succeeded. They walked through Ukraine for over three months with the intention of joining Czechoslovak units. They got to Buzuluk. The weakened Lukáš Polanský was placed to artillery where he was to do calculations. He took part in all of the critical combat in Poland and Slovakia. By the end of the war he also participated on liberation of Prague. He stayed in the army after the war and gradually became colonel. Later he worked at Ministry of Interior.
