I do not regret months spent in communist prison. Rather, I regret that I have done no more harm to the regime
Karel Žižka was born on 12 January 1950 in Nový Jičín. He graduated from the High School. After graduation he started to study at X-ray laboratory in Olomouc. After the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, he co-organized various protests and minor resistance activities. On the first anniversary of Jan Palach’s death in 1970, he distributed leaflets commemorating his legacy and calling for resistance against non-freedom. He was arrested and sentenced to seven months in prison. He first served his sentence in Ostrava remand prison and after his sentence he was imprisoned in Horní Slavkov. After his release, he worked as a machine lubrication handyman in Nový Jičín’s Tonak company. Later he worked as an ambulance nurse in the hospital. He completed his studies remotely and then worked as an X-ray laboratory technician in hospitals in Nový Jičín and Odry for more than twenty years. He was fully rehabilitated in free conditions. In 2017, the Czech government awarded him as a participant in the resistance and resistance to communism.