The regime didn‘t bother me much anymore, but my parents and grandparents suffered
Josef Kuthan was born on September 21, 1955 in Příbram as the only child of Josef and Jaroslava Kuthan. He spent his childhood alternately in Prague in Žižkov, where he also graduated from elementary school, and with his grandmother in Velká Lečica, near Dobříš. His father Josef was born in 1922 and was forcibly deployed in Germany during the war. He escaped from there in 1944 and joined the resistance in Dobříš as a link of the Fakel partisan group. After the war, he was the secretary of the basic partisan organisation in Dobříš for two years, before the communists dissolved it. Josef‘s grandparents on his mother‘s side were evicted by the communists from their farm in Dublovice in 1951. They got it back in restitution only partially after the Velvet Revolution. After primary school, Josef Kuthan trained as a car mechanic in Příbram and worked at the local Mototechná. In the mid-1970s, he completed his military service with the air force in Brno and in Prague - Kbely, where he served in the engineering flight service. He got married in 1978 and raised two sons with his wife. He completed a five-year secondary agricultural-technical school in Mladá Boleslav and worked as a technician and later as a workshop manager in an agrochemical company near Hostivice until the Velvet Revolution. After the revolution, he started working as a self-employed person, and now enjoys his pension in the settlement of Pánkov near Nové Knín.