Communists are bitches

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Ivan Landsmann decided to express his disapproval of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw pact armies in 1968 by refusing to go to work for a full year. His period of resistance ended in 1969 when he started his military service in Přáslavice near Olomouc. Ivan Landsmann was able to work with people, which is why he was chosen for an officer candidate school, and having graduated, he became the leader of an anti-aircraft artillery company. His overt anticommunist opinions caused him a lot of trouble during his military service. Landsmann was imprisoned many times, including for indecent behaviour, offending professional soldiers and unauthorised departure from the barracks. Captain Urbášek, a candidate for the Communist Party membership helped to iron out his problems with military discipline. Ivan Landsmann remembers an incident that could have ended in criminal prosecution: “Doing our warm-up exercise, we were running along the yard and some colonel was watching us from the reviewing stand. Running past the stand, I couldn’t stand it and yelled: “Communists are bitches!” What a mess! They tried to find who did it. One soldier turned me in.” Captain Urbášek saved Ivan Landsmann once again and, instead of prosecution, Landsmann paid for his cheekiness with the traditional twenty-one days in military jail. Landsmann has nothing but good memories of the military jail as, according to him, the atmosphere in the prison was much freer than in everyday military service.

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Ivan Landsmann was born on 26th February 1949 in Nový Jičín. When he was nine years old, his father was sentenced for fictitious theft in a mine, and upon returning from jail he left the family. That is when Ivan became a problem young man. He did not complete a vocational school and worked as a co-driver until his military service. Having returned from the military service, he got married and worked in the Antonín Zápotocký mine in Havířov for a full fifteen years. He immigrated to Canada to his elder brother but was forced to return to Europe after two months. He obtained asylum in Holland. Jaroslav Hutka helped him in Rotterdam and advised Landsmann to write. Ivan Landsmann wrote the books Pestré vrstvy (Varicoloured Strata), Fotr (Father), Vězení na svobodě (Imprisoned at Large) and Šestý smysl (Sixth Sense). Pestré vrstvy won the Lidové noviny Book of the Year award in 2000. Ivan Landsmann returned to the Czech Republic in 2000; he got married again and lives in Prague.

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A part of Přáslavice is the settlement Kocourovec. The military barracks are located about one kilometer northeast of Kocourovec. The first recorded reference to the military compound in Přáslavice dates back to 1880. The entry in the local chronicle reads that in this year the government of the then Hapsburg Empire bought the premises from the village authorities and set up a shooting range on it. The troops had to come to the shooting range on foot from Olomouc and at first, they housed in tents. After a few years, a training camp with a few buildings was created on the bank of the creek Vrtůvky nearby the shooting range and the area was called Zátiší. In the years 1950-1960, the village expanded by a military settlement. It meant not only the expansion of the village, but also the construction of a store, a physician's office, a kindergarten and an increase of the number of classes taught at the local school. In the years 1966-1994, the barracks in Přáslavice were used by the 33rd tank regiment of the Czechoslovak-Polish friendship. Since 1994 to the present, the object houses the 72nd mechanized battalion and the 73rd Czech army tank battalion.

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