"We would meet in a pub maybe, only he paid for the beer. We talked casually, also about family things - they even told me about their families and what they were doing. It was, I would say, on a friendly level." - "Were you on first name terms with them?" - "I don't know now, I think it was surnames. I guess so; we weren't actual friends; we just got together and had a casual chat."
"I also completed the VUML and I don't consider it a bad thing. They taught us some stupid things, but also very good things. I remember, for example, their lecture on religions. How it evolved - in Christianity there is God, the Holy Father and the Son, the trinity, and it went into this communist ideology where there are Marx, Engls, and Lenin. The communism came from religion; it is a religion based on a similar ideology."
"Unfortunately, there have been personnel changes at school as well. They dug up dirt about our teachers, Rozehnal, Grimm and the one who did urban planning. Rozehnal went to prison, so did Grimm, and the urban planner wasn't even let in the studio to get his cap. They came to get him, pulled him out of the studio and kicked him out of the school, but they didn't arrest him. His name was Fuchs. They were replaced by these mediocre people. We graduated okay, but I got my degree in residential construction."
Josef Myslivec was born in Uzhhorod on 13 December 1936. His parents Františka and Josef worked as clerks. In 1938, the family had to leave Carpathian Ruthenia and spent the war with the father‘s parents in Červenka near Olomouc. After the war, the Myslivec family moved to Frývaldov (Jeseník from 1947) as part of the re-settlement of the borderland under Beneš‘s decrees. Having completed high school, Josef Myslivec studied architecture at the Brno University of Technology (1954-1960). During his professional career, he successfully completed a number of projects and worked multiple jobs as a designer in several Brno offices - the State Project Institute of Trade (SPÚO), the Regional Institute of National Health (KÚNZ), Potravinoprojekt and Chirana. In the 1970s, he joined the Communist Party (KSČ) and graduated from the Evening University of Marxism-Leninism (VUML). In 1984 he signed a collaboration deal with the State Security Service (StB) and worked as an agent under the code name Sís and then Berka until the fall of the communist regime. After the revolution he continued to work as a designer, retiring in 2000. He lived in Brno in 2024.
A quarry in Vápenná - Josef Myslivec is centre; the eldest daughter Zuzana is left, younger daughter Renata is right, and next to her are witness's brother's sons Petr and Vláďa, 1974
A quarry in Vápenná - Josef Myslivec is centre; the eldest daughter Zuzana is left, younger daughter Renata is right, and next to her are witness's brother's sons Petr and Vláďa, 1974
