The communists forced people to join the party, including me. But after August ‚68 I hit them with it!
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Zlata Wálová was born on 19 September 1925 into a family of teachers. She spent her childhood in the village of Luže in East Bohemia. In 1935 she started to attend the gymnasium in Vysoké Mýto. During the Second World War she worked as a forced labourer in the Mráz factory, which was an aircraft factory. After the war, she enrolled in college, where she met her husband Jiří Wala. She devoted her entire professional life to physical education, a field she shared with her husband. She and her husband raised two daughters. Zlata Wálová is the author or co-author of several books and scripts on the subject of physical education. Fearing that she would lose her job, she decided to agree to join the Communist Party, but left the party following the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. She welcomed the social change of 1989 with joy and took part in a demonstration on Letná. In 2024 she lived in Prague.
