A fountain pen with his name engraved on it
In 1946, Jan Janků re-established the scout organization in Hanušovice and the union of friends of the Junák. At the same time he became a leader of one of the troops. In the Scout, he got to know Alois Valenta, also a leader of one of the troops. Valenta was also a member of the anti-communist resistance group "Světlana" that operated in the region of Moravia. "There were seven members of Světlana living in Hanušovice. Lojza Valenti was nineteen years old, working as a road-mender, when I lent him my fountain pen. Back then, having a fountain pen was a luxury. In those days, it was in vogue to engrave your name on the pen, so I did that as well." Světlana was infiltrated by StB agents who lured Valenta into Valašské kloubouky. "They shot Lojza there. They allegedly emptied the whole magazine into him. Then they dragged him by his feet to the armory. I didn't know about it at that time." The secret police carried out a search at the place where Vlenta was killed, and the pen with Mr. Janků's name was found. Mr. Janků managed to evade the first arrest attempt, but then the secret police set a trap for him. "I had no idea what had happened to Valenta. I got a letter from him, that had been written by the StB, inviting me to visit him. On May 29, 1949, a car with a diplomatic license plate and a car of the International Red Cross were waiting for me. Lola Doležalová, the lover of Ruda Stránský – we used to call him redhead – was supposed to lure me into the trap. She was an agent of the StB. She let me into the car and told me that she'd take me across the border. That was my last moment of freedom. Then I got beaten up in Jihlava, after which they took me to the town of Uherské Hradiště." The trials with the arrested members of the group lasted for two years and involved over four hundred people. Jan Janků feared that he would get the death penalty. In 1950, after approximately one year of waiting in Uherské Hradiště, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
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