It took her ten years to get out of the Soviet Union to see her father.
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Natalia Mikušková was born on August 10, 1947 in the town of Kaliny in Transcarpathian Ukraine, which belonged to the Soviet Union. Her father joined Svoboda‘s army during World War II and remained in Czechoslovakia after the war. Natálie Mikušková lived with her mother and two siblings in Kalina in a timbered cottage until 1957, when they managed to leave for Broumov region to visit her father. She spoke Ruthenian and the children at school did not accept her at first. In 1960, her father took her to meet Ludvík Svoboda. She trained as a saleswoman and later completed her high school diploma while working at Veba. She married and had children. In 2023 she lived in Broumov.