It´s necessary to formulate a vision for next quarter of a century
Petr Pospíchal was born on 16. 3. 1960 in Brno. After the basic school he entered the apprenticeship to a printer, which he finally finished in spite of the Stb pressure. In the apprenticeship he met friends from the ring of Brno dissidents and started to work with them. Reaching maturity was also a date of first questionary at the State Police and three weeks after his 18th birthday Petr was for the first time imprisoned. After returning from jail he again took part in the dissident work and started to cooperate with VONS - a decision followed by more attacks and threatening of the State police. In 1981 he entered the Army service, which, how he says, was worst time then in jail: „The boys there were upset and fed up, that they have to be there and they were compensating it on the younger boys. In jail the screws were at work – they wanted us only to not make problems“. But for the Stb his being in the Army was not enough and in 1987 he was imprisoned for the second time. Finally he was jailed in 1987, but he was released after big campaigns home and abroad. In the spring 1988 he founded with Petr Uhl VIA (Easteuropian information Agency), where he was working also during the velvet revolution. .He was one of the redactors deciding the broadcasting of information about the death of Martin Šmíd. After the revolution in 1989 he had been working as an ambassador in Bulgaria and he was for a long time member of the Committee for radio and Tv broadcasting. Now he is working as an entrepreneur in the field of computer nets.