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Jiří Valenta was born in a family of village teachers in the village of Dolní Stakory nearby Mladá Boleslav in 1927. As an adolescent, he witnessed the occupation of the village by the Germans and later the welcoming of the liberators - the Soviet troops. After the war, he fell for the ideals of socialist ideology and became a member of a propaganda group agitating in the interest of collectivization. Among other things, he was a playwright of the theater in Hradec Králové and also a journalist. After the sanctions of 1968, he worked predominantly in manual professions, for instance as a tram driver or a stage technician. He authored a number of publications.