Miroslav Pilík

* 1937

Komunistický funkcionár, Pohraniční stráž
5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - Pražská jar, Konec druhé světové války, Vznik zakázaného pásma při západních hranicích Československa
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    Demolitions of buildings in the border area

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    “He left me there; at that time we were working there and demolishing the abandoned houses which were close to the border zone. One reason for the demolitions was so that ‘intruders’ as they were called at that time would not abuse them. Some of them were passing through there, although it was difficult for them to cross the border, anyway. We as soldiers were thus demolishing some of the houses and securing them, and we got some discarded trucks from the army, they were the Tatra 128, which was a real junk, and some bulldozers and diggers. We did this work in the area which stretched from Děčín here, from Petrovice, and all the way to the Saint Sebastian Mountain, which is somewhere by Chomutov, and the zone reached all the way there.”

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    Mining of uranium ore

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    “The ore was to be mined from there. Sometimes there was not too much of it, but the way it was done was that the raw ore which accumulates there when the rock is blasted as the shaft advances upward was leveled and wooden planks were placed over it and then covered with tarpaulin and then they drilled down to the streak and placed some weak explosive charge there and blasted it. Then there were so called collectors, they were people who were searching for active ore which was to be collected, this active ore is much darker, it is stone-blue, and this was being placed in special boxes and the waste rock was being left down there in the shaft.”

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    1968

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    “I felt bad about the occupation; I almost didn’t eat anything for the whole week, because I kept saying to myself: ‘This just cannot be.’ Nothing was happening here, so why? If there had been some great revolt or something… well, but there was nothing and the situation was quite stable and they suddenly did this. When you saw the roads and everything being destroyed by the tanks and how much damage was done. They invaded the country like locusts.”

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Miroslav Pilík

Miroslav Pilík was born June 5, 1937 in the hamlet Mezný in the Sedlčany region. He experienced the end of the war and the arrival of the Red Army. After the war he decided to become a miner and for a short time he worked in the uranium mine Bytíz in the Příbram region. Then he did his basic military service during which he served in the Border Guard unit in Děčín and he was mainly in charge of logistics. While he was in the army he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He remained in Děčín, he married and he worked in construction, but his tranquil life was interrupted by the occupation of Czechoslovakia by five armies of the Warsaw Pact in 1968. It was a difficult period for Miroslav, and he regarded the act as inconceivable treason. He was expelled from the Party during so-called normalization purges, but he continued working in the construction business until his retirement.

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