I was angry about not living my own life
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Jan Hájek was born on 29 May 1964 in Prague as the only son of a high-ranking communist politician Jiří Hájek. In August 1968 his father served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Because of his stay in Yugoslavia, following the Warsaw Pact countries‘ invasion, unlike other members of the government he was not interned in the USSR and instead managed to speak publicly against the invasion in New York. After his return to Prague in 1969 his family was under surveillance by the secret police. Since his father became a signatory and one of the first spokespersons of Charter 77, Jan was denied university education and therefore decided to leave for exile. Between 1986 and 1992 he had lived in Norway where he graduated in architecture and got married. At the beginning of the 90s he and his wife have moved to Czechoslovakia. Jan Hájek died on December 27th, 2022.