I served two years in the standing army, and five years with the sappers.
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Lieutenant (ret.) Vjačeslav Viskočil was born on the 5th of February 1927 in the Czech village of Malá Zubovština in Soviet Volhynia. His ancestors came to Volhynia from Moravia. Viskočil enlisted into the Red Army in December 1944. He served as an artilleryman of the 1851st anti-air artillery regiment, going all the way to Germany itself. He was then transferred (probably because of his Czech nationality) to the so-called “strojbat” (sapper battalion) in the Ural Mountains, where he built houses and airfields. He returned to Malá Zubovština in 1951. He worked in the local kolchoz, he married in 1952, a son was born in 1955. He experienced the explosion of the nuclear power plant Chernobyl - a mere 60 kilometres from Malá Zubovština. In 1991 he and his wife Nataša made use of the possibility to re-emigrate to the Czech Republic. In the year 2000, the Ministry of Defence granted him the rank of Lieutenant (ret.). He lived in Kuřivody, near Ralsko. He died on February 27, 2014.
