In the opportunists’ nest
Jiří Pospíšil was born on August 19, 1937 in Olšany, Šumperk region. Towards the end of the Second World War, the family lived in a rented apartment of the municipal office in the neighboring village of Bohdíkov. They were interrogated by the Gestapo, because of the theft of food stamps by partisans. In the 1950s, Jiří Pospíšil graduated from the Mechanical Industrial School in Šumperk and then got a job in the paper mills in Lukavice. After his military service he worked in the Olšany paper mill until his retirement. And it was also there, where he refused to describe the occupation as friendly aid during the normalization interviews, and he walked to work in protest on the first anniversary of the occupation, and instead of signing the Anticharter he secretly sneaked out of work. He got into trouble at work because of his attitudes, but he was not fired because of his expertise. During the Velvet Revolution he became a member of the Civic Forum. Since 1968, he has lived in Ruda nad Moravou, where he experienced extensive flooding in 1997. His wife Jarmila Pospíšilová died in 2022 after more than 66 years of marriage.