Goddamned Prison
In April 1948, Jan Mašek and his colleague Kaska were arrested during the resistance activities and were transported to infamous Moscow KGB, (Committee for State Security), examination room, to Ljubljanka. “They took us to Ljubljanka and soon found out we are Czechs because they sent a telex to Prague and unfortunately the StB, (State Security), members knew me and Kaska well. So the questionings were, let' s say, “friendly.” It is a goddamned prison, the cells are 1,5 x 1,5 meters, the toilets primitive, food very poor; not only in Ljubljanka,but in the whole USSR,” he recalled. After nine months both of them were transferred back to Prague, but with stops in different soviet prisons. Jan Mašek was finally conditionally released in 1964.
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Jan Mašek
Jan Mašek was born 1923 in České Budějovice. A year after his graduation he served penal servitude in Germany. On Christmas Eve in 1943 he escaped back to Budějovice and worked in the local factory till the end of the war. In 1948 he and some his friends established a resistance movement, and were spreading anti-communist pamphlets, but mainly they helped people to get across the border to Germany. After the warning that they arrested warrant for him, he escaped abroad. He continued in resistance movement till 1951 when he was arrested by Soviet soldiers. He was transported to Moscow and after a year escorted back to Prague where the StB took over him. In 1954 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He got through different prisons and finally was conditionally released in 1964. After the Soviet occupation he emigrated to Austria, then to Switzerland and after a short stay in the USA he returned back to the Czech Republic.
