I told them that I will never be in the party because they say something else and do something else
Milena Uhlíková, née Válová, was born on March 15, 1929 in Prague. Her father Antonín had a small construction company, her mother Anna worked as a housekeeper in the house in which they lived in in Smíchov. Milena completed her primary education in Smíchov and also went to the family school there. When she celebrated her tenth birthday, German soldiers occupied the country. During the war, her mother kept geese and rabbits in the cellar, and relatives from the countryside also helped them out. In the winter of 1945, Milena was deployed to Rupa Modřany, where she issued materials to the workers in the warehouse. She experienced the bombing of Prague in February 1945, the Prague Uprising and the liberation by the Red Army. After finishing the family school in 1946, she joined Tatra Smíchov, where she worked until 1955. In 1949, she married Vladimír Uhlík, divorced twenty-six years later, she is childless. Between 1955 and 1965 she was alternately at home on sick leave and in the meantime she worked at the Smíchov branch of Zbrojovka Brno, at the Ministry of Construction and various part-time jobs. Although she despised communists and made her opinion known to them, thanks to an acquaintance she managed to get a position as a secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1965. In August 1968, she travelled to Austria with her mother and husband. Two weeks after their return, occupation troops arrived in the country. At the end of 1969, she resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1970 she worked at the company IPS (Engineering and Industrial Construction) in Prague. In November 1989, she participated in the Letná demonstrations. After the revolution, she tried to travel as long as her health allowed. In 2019, she lived with her partner in Vinohrady, Prague.