I always counted on the fact that air raids come from the North so I never ran southward
Stáhnout obrázek
Vlastimil Maňoušek was born in 1924 in Bučovice. In August 1943 he was totally deployed in a factory in an Austrian town of Wels. There he survived an American air raid bombing at the end of war. After the liberation of our country he returned to Prague. In 1951 he joined the army and worked in the Military Technical Institute in Prague. In 1956 he left to Alexandria as a translator for Egyptian tankist courses. At the same time the so called Suez crisis broke out in Egypt and the British and French armies were coming to the area. Together with his colleagues he fled to Libya and Nile as far as to Vádi-Halfa and then further to Belgium by airplane. At the end of the 1950th Vlastimil began to work for the generality in Prague, but still refused to join the party, although we was intensely manipulated by the defence intelligence to do so. Five years later he came back to Brno again, where he worked first as a translator and then in the unions. He taught himself English and Chinese. He is interested in acupuncture, he has been using to heal himself for many years now. Today he is married with a son, a doctor of medicine.