I wish the time, we lived under the rule of the communists, never came back
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Miloslav Zídka was born 15 November, 1934 at a farming estate in the central Bohemian village of Lensedly. He attended an elementary school in the birth place of the painter, Josef Lada in Hrusice and a secondary school in Mnichovice. His father participated in an anti-Nazi resistance during war. When the communists took over the powe in 1948 the family Zídek got into trouble. In 1950 the father was pronounced a gulag and for not fulfilling the required doses he was sentenced to prison, where he spent over three years. In March 1953 he was the family was violently evicted by the communists from the farm in Lensedly to Postřelnov in the Šumperk region. Obligatory military service Miloslav spent at several places, for example in Hodonín, Bánská Bystrica and Uherské Hradiště. In 1956 he started in Prague as a smoker in a fish smokehouse in the company Rybena, where he met his future wife and got married in June 1957. He worked as a bus driver of the Prague public transport company. In 1993 he restituted back his family farm in Lensedly and in 1995 retired. He has two sons with his wife and enjoys most staying at his cottage in Poddubí near Chocerady at the river Sázava.
