I don‘t understand why the guards weren‘t convicted after the revolution
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Josef Hynek was born on 6 March 1947 in Mladá Boleslav where his father Josef came from. His mother Emílie, née Sulová, came from Nové Město nad Váhom in Slovakia. Both parents were labourers and communist party members. Josef spent his childhood with parents and two siblings Zdeněk and Milena in Podchlumí, nicknamed Maroko. He grew up in a difficult family situation. His father was an alcoholic, which affected the entire family‘s life. Still, the family gave him a love for tramping, to which he returns to this day. All his relatives were dyed-in-the wool communists. When he was fifteen, the family moved to Mladá Boleslav. Followimg primary school, he trained as a bricklayer with Armabeton. In 1966 he joined the missile unit in Stará Boleslav. While in the military, he witnessed the August 1968 invasion into Czechoslovakia. He moved to Trenčín in the early 1970s, got married and had a daughter. Between 1974 and 1990, he was imprisoned three times for criminal offences such as theft, fraud and parasitism. He has been in prison in Želiezovce, Leopoldov, Valdice and Rýnovice. As part of his sentence, he also spent two and a half years in the uranium mines in Bytíz. He was released on Václav Havel‘s amnesty and his final seven-year sentence was reduced by one year. He lived in the streets for several months. Thanks to the support of Naděje and Salvation Army organisations, which became his new family and home, he eventually found a place to live and a job. The Salvation Army continued to help him during the filming of 2024, and he was extremely grateful to its staff.
