I was infected by that communism
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Marie Rudolecká was born on 10 November 1930 in Polná to her mother Maria, née Landová, and father Josef Skočdopole. The family had a farm, her father was a trained shoemaker, her mother helped in the shop. Father remained a convinced communist since the founding of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). He was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and sentenced to several years in prison in Germany, he returned in 1945. Marie Rudolecká finished her schooling and started working at the Unified Union of Czech Farmers at the age of 15. In 1950 she found employment as a typist at the Department of the Ministry of the Interior (MV) in Jihlava. There she also experienced the investigation of the Babice murders. She was a typist and secretary throughout her life. In 1955, she moved to the same position in Prague, to the 1st administration of the Ministry of the Interior, i.e. the Intelligence Department. From 1962 she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and was sent to the Czechoslovak Embassy in Rome, while still employed at the Ministry of the Interior. She worked in Rome from 1963 to 1965. Her younger brother Jaroslav emigrated to Sweden in 1966. As a result, Marie Rudolecká lost the opportunity to travel abroad for work. She worked briefly at the Administration of Correctional Facilities (SNV), in the prison at Pankrác. At the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies, she was on a tour in Paris. After being expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs after 1968, she could not find a job and was eventually recruited by the Foreign Ministry. In the 1970s worked at the Czechoslovak Cultural Centre in Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). After her return, she joined the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (ROH) as a secretary and remained there until her retirement. She welcomed the fall of the regime in 1989 and resumed work for the Broadcasting Council. In 2001 she married Miloš Rudolecký. In 2024 she was living in Prague.
