I crawled through on opening that was 40 centimeters wide
Milan Valiska was born on July 28, 1952 in Chrudim to a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He grew up with his two sisters in Pardubice and after his studies he refused to enlist in the military. Instead, he chose a ten-year service in the Radvanice mines near Trutnov and later on the metro construction works in Prague. There he was monitored by a “secret” [policeman], which he later met at an interrogation in Bartolomějská street. During a house search, the police confiscated a large amount of Jehovah’s Witnesses religious literature from him and his wife, as well as the equipment needed for their production and distribution, yet they were released one day later. After 1989, he would still encounter a similar view of Jehovah’s Witnesses from people, much like during the communist rule.