When You Understand, Your Fate Will Not Be So Painful - The story of Jiří Bezděk
When You Understand, Your Fate Will Not Be So Painful - The story of Jiří Bezděk

Author(s): Jan Dvořák, Adam Hradilek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies in violence and power, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; Jiří Bezděk; music; concentration camps; Solovetsky Islands; communist regime;
Summary/Abstract: Out of thousands of Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned in the Soviet Union, only a few experienced the first Soviet concentration camp on the Solovetsky Islands. Among them was the teacher Jiří Bezděk. His imprisonment on the dreaded “Solovki” was only one painful episode in his life journey full of hardship that led through Soviet labour camps and Siberian exile to prisons in communist Czechoslovakia.

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