You need a human face but neither communism nor capitalism will help

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Zdenka Kmuníčková was born June 23, 1933 in Řečice near Brno. Her father Jan Kmuníček was an organic chemist working in the food industry, her mother was a housewife. Zdenka Kmuníčková went blind at the age of twelve but a cornea transplant helped her regain her sight when she was twenty. Her condition deteriorated at a work group of the Czechoslovak Socialist Union of Youth and she’s had to cope with her disability her whole life. In 1951 she joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party. In 1965 she graduated medical school despite her eye condition and started working in the Kosmonosy mental institution as a psychiatrist; later she worked at a psychiatric clinic in Prague. As a consultant she treated the dying Jan Palach in 1969 and she recorded an interview with him in good faith, which later became a controversial subject of lawsuits following the revolution in 1989. She genuinely believed in the communist ideals up until the August 1968 occupation. Afterwards she didn‘t pass the screenings and was expelled from the party. She runs a private practice to this day.