I wanted debolshevisation to be carried out after 1989
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Jaroslav Vinický was born in Vyškov on 26 June 1963, the only child of his parents Jaroslav Vinický and Jana Vinická, née Bláhová. His father was a test engineer of steam turbines in Brno, he used to go to the USSR for engineering assembly stays, where Jaroslav Vinický also visited him twice. His mother worked as a manager of a factory canteen. His paternal great-grandmother, a German from Sudetenland, was expelled after the war. His grandmother Gizela and her husband were allowed to stay, changing their name from the German Weintritt to the Czech Vinický. His maternal grandfather, Antonín Fila, lost his stationery business due to nationalization in the 1950s. As a child, Jaroslav witnessed the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968. He graduated from secondary school, but did not finish the Brno University of Technology. He made his living as a programmer. During his adolescence and university studies he belonged among long-haired young men with anti-communist attitude in Vyškov and later in Brno. With friends he organised secret events and concerts. He was often interrogated by State Security and physically assaulted during interrogations. He had problems at work and during his military service, from which he was eventually exempted due to a stay in a psychiatric hospital. In Brno, he was copying samizdat texts and spreading the petition A Few Sentences. He was one of the founders of the Civic Forum (OF) in Vyškov. After the Velvet Revolution, he started his own business. At the time of filming in 2022, he was living in Olomouc.
