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Ing. Miroslav Tyl (* 1943)

• +he was born to a well-off middle class family, his father was an economist and a lawyer who participated in the resistance and supported the government in exile +he finished his studies in agriculture in Liblice near Pregue, becoming a cultivator and a breeder +he had been working as an agronomist at a farm in Radvanice for two years +during the second year of his compulsory military service, he had been listening to the foreign radio broadcast, he was charged with subverting the morals of the troops and given a mandatory sentence +he graduated from the University of Life Sciences, later, he also graduated in sociology from the Faculty of Arts in Prague +he participated on the Prague Spring of 1968 student movement +after 1968, he was working as a researcher +he was one of the first to sign the Charter 77 petition +after 1989, he was a member of parliament and also an advisor to two Prime Ministers

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