What mattered was not some great act, but an opinion
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Vladimír Kadeřábek was born on July 24, 1929. He grew up in Úvaly u Prahy. During the war he apprenticed in a foodstore.. wholesale store and he wanted to become a salesman. At the end of the 1940s his brother was imprisoned for political reasons and his father was interrogated. His mother suffered a psychic breakdown due to this and she was hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital in Beřkovice. In 1950 Vladimír was drafted to do his military service in the Auxiliary Technical Battalions where he served for a total of 28 months - at first in Postoloprty at a construction of the airport in Žatec and then in Ostrava and eventually in mines in Stochov near Kladno. After completing his military service he was ordered to continue working in the Stochov mines, but he ignored the order and instead he found a job for an airline where he then kept working until his retirement. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies to Czechoslovakia in August 1968 he and his wife had their son Ivan renamed to Václav as a small form of protest against the occupation. Until the Velvet Revolution both of them faced various troubles from the communist regime, such as with admission of their children to universities.