Special assignment
Karel Stránský sent his fourteen year old son Jiří to the White Lion resistance unit staff, which resided near their villa in Dejvice, to find out what is going on in Prague during the Prague Uprising of May 1945. The organisation was led by General Vedral, a long-time friend of Jiří Stránský’s father: “I took care of what was necessary and then they gave me a special assignment that I was not supposed to even tell my father. Vedral told me: ‘You’re a clever boy, a Sokol, so you will manage. But don’t tell your father!’ That was an honour for me. Vedral sent me from their staff, which resided on today’s Evropská Street, (called Velvarská at the time), to the Czech National Council branch in the Lesser Town with a message. I was supposed to inform them that free passage across barricades should be granted to the Vlasov army soldiers who were wearing German uniforms upon arrival in Prague. But it was too late; by then the Vlasov men had entered Prague. In the end, it was the Vlasov men who almost got me when I was hiding in Strahov on my way to the Lesser Town. There still were Nazi soldiers there and the Vlasov men would shoot them whenever they met them. But it ended up well and I was safe.” Jiří Stránský was awarded the military 2nd Degree Medal for Merits for his involvement in the Prague Uprising.
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