The war was a waste of life and time, but I still draw from it today.
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Vladimír Vindiš was born on 17 January 1958 in Pilsen, his family soon moved to Prague because of his father’s profession. His father Jaroslav started in the Czechoslovak People’s Army as an airman, later, due to poor eyesight, he moved to administrative positions in the Ministry of Defence, rising to the rank of colonel. Vladimír Vindiš graduated from the construction industrial school, after graduating in 1978 he joined the army in January 1979. He was assigned to the road construction battalion in Chrudim. He has many absurd memories of the two-year war; the construction battalion, according to his story, combined the worst of the regime - alcoholism, sloppiness, despair. The worst memory belongs to an incident when three soldiers died after the fall of a rammer, many were wounded. The way their superiors handled it shook him. He also encountered companies of criminal elements at the unit. Today (2024) he sums up his experience by saying, among other things, that it was an interesting study of different characters. After returning from the war, he worked at Pozemní stavby Praha, and after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 he became independent. He worked in the construction industry all his life and participated in many interesting buildings, for example the reconstruction of the Máj department store. In 2024 he lived in Prague.
