We considered it a schoolboy prank. They viewed it as terrorism
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Miroslav Šolar was born on 7 September 1943 in Pilsen, to a family of fireman František Šolar. During his childhood and adolescence, he was mainly interested in sports, played competitive football and hockey, and trained at the first national Spartakiade in 1955. He trained as an electromechanic at the former Škoda Factories, at that time renamed the V. I. Lenin Factories. He graduated from the industrial school while working there. In 1963, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), convinced that he would be able to influence his surroundings for the better. During his military service in Tachov, he met his wife, and they had a daughter together. After the war, he therefore sought employment with an apartment. He found it in the uranium mines in Příbram, where he started working first as an electrician and later as a miner in the shaft. At the beginning of the 1970s, he became a foreman. Ondřej Stavinoha, who blew up a statue of Klement Gottwald in Příbram in 1978 to protest against the tenth anniversary of the occupation by Warsaw Pact troops, was also a member of his mining group. Miroslav Šolar did not approve of this act, but in court, he offered that the work collective would vouch for Ondřej Stavinoha. When his former subordinate served his sentence, he allowed him to return to work at the mines. Miroslav Šolar returned to his profession as an electrician after 1989 and retired in 1993. In 2013, he resigned from the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) because he no longer considered his membership meaningful.
