He mocked the Communists. He fought them by dancing
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Jiří Vik was born on January 10, 1931. His father travelled a lot for work, but eventually settled with his family in Třebechovice pod Orebem, where he attended primary school and later also a business academy, which he did not complete. His father was forced to join the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1948, but he did not resist the pressure of local officials and ended his life by suicide the same year. The tragic death of his father affected the whole family. The witness no longer had a firm grip on himself, he did not finish high school and started to learn to be a furrier. In 1952, Jiří Vik entered compulsory military service, and soon after he returned home, his mother died. However, he was unable to work as a furrier, so he joined the civil engineering department, worked his way up and in the 1980s travelled to England for work. On his return home he worked for the State Forestry Service. He and his wife raised two children. Jiří Vik died in June 2023.
