Stage-managed Revolt

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Milo Komínek was sentenced for anti-communist resistance activities and on October 11, he was transported to prison Bory in Pilsen. “It was a nightmare – chaps locked up in chains. There were not many small-time thieves at Bory, the majority was political prisoners. I was lucky because they put me in a cell with general Pešek, general Nosál, the archdeacon from Domažlice and other high ranks such as soldiers who trained paratroopers abroad.” At Bory it turned out that the communists did not stage-manage only court hearings, but also prison revolts. One of those stage-managed revolts took place at Bory prison in 1950. “It was not a revolt at all, everything was stage-managed. During this so called revolt, they executed major Černý, Pilsen deputy Broj and a guard and policeman Petelík. The purpose of the revolt was to do these people in. They needed to get rid of Černý who trained paratroopers. They needed to get rid of them, because these people were smart.” Guard Petelík was executed as a warning for his colleagues, because sometimes he would bring cigarettes to the prisoners and he treated them more humanely.

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Milo Komínek

Miloslav 'Milo' Komínek was born on 20th July 1926 to Josef Komínek a worker at the iron-works in Frýdek-Místek and his wife Marie. He finished his apprenticeship as a locksmith and a cinema operator. During the Protectorate period, he participated in the underground resistance as most of the members of his family. He helped mainly with the manufacture of explosives and bombs. He was interested in politics, after the war he began to cooperate with the Czechoslovak People's Party. He also passed a flying and parachute training. From 1945 to 1948 he represented Czechoslovakia in aerobatics at air shows all around the world. In 1948 he tried to escape abroad but he was caught and imprisoned for a short time. After his release in summer 1948 he became a part of a resistance group Portáš-Jánošík operating in the North Moravian Beskydy Mountains. The group was soon revealed and its members received severe sentences. Milo Komínek and his five friends, all between 17 and 21 years old, were sentenced to a sum of 53 years in prison... Milo Komínek passed through prisons and camps at Bory, in the Jáchymov area (the Rovnost mine), at Leopoldov and Valdice. He was released in 1965. In 1968 he left the country through Austria and Switzerland to Canada. He ran a small publishing company in Toronto, and he continued these activities even after his return home. Miloslav ‘Milo’ Komínek died on May 25, 2010, two months before celebrating his 84th birthday.

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Plzeň, Bory

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The Bory prison is located on the southern outskirts of the city of Pilsen, near the Litice dam. The prison complex in Plzeň-Bory consists of a central building with radially protruding single wings. The resulting shape of the building is that of a regular octagon. In the 1950s, the Bory prison was renowned as one of the harshest prisons with primitive sanitation and living conditions. Up to five prisoners would be routinely placed in solitary confinement. A number of outstanding personalities were imprisoned here, such as Army General Heliodor Píka, who was executed in Bory on June 21, 1949. The so-called "Bory uprising", in which the former member of the Royal Air Force Josef Bryks participated, took place here. The participation in the uprising added an extra 20 years to his 10 years term that he had gotten in a trumped-up process in 1949. The rebellion was probably artificially staged. In later years, former Czech President Václav Havel was imprisoned here. The prison serves its purpose until today.