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The lovers kissed in a uranium mine

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Milena Hypšová worked as a civilian employee in the uranium labour camp, checking gangue for radioactivity. She met her life-long love among the political prisoners. At first she thought he was from State Security – he had an electric mine lamp like they did – and she behaved to him accordingly, with aloofness and disdain: “And the way it was, he thought some not very nice things of me. But then he heard about me from various people – and he was surprised. One time he came along with his friend Vašek, also a political (prisoner), and that’s how we started talking. Every now and then he’d come, every now and then Vašek would, who carried our messages – it was more of a pen friendship,” Milena Blatná (née Hypšová) recounts. She was transferred to a different place soon after. She thought she would never see her dearest again. “It happened on the First of May. I was leaving from night shift and they came in the morning. I was carrying something to the workshop, and that’s where we met. I got my first kiss from him. And after that it was where and when possible.” Jiří Blatný, a student whose cooperation with a resistance group caused him to end up with 13 years in prison for high treason, wrote a reel note to his parents. He begged them to stay in touch with Milena, in case she was transferred to a different place again. That happened in February 1954. Milena was discharged, probably because of some informant. She began studies at the University of Economics, and waited for her dear one almost five years. They married in 1958, immediately after his release. They lived together 45 years and brought up two children.

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Milena Hypšová and Jiří Blatný

Milena Hypšová and Jiří Blatný

Milena Blatná was born on 10 October 1934 into the family of headmaster František Hypš and his wife Marie, née Košumberská. Her father was an active member of the Sokol sports society, and among other things he helped build the Sokol Hall in Příbram, he also played in an amateur theatre and sang in the male teacher's choir. His wife trained young Sokol members. Although Milena was from an educated family where it was expected that she would continue her studies at university, she decided instead to begin work immediately after graduating from grammar school. She came to Jáchymov in 1952. She worked in the office in Camp Svornost, and then switched to mining (Eduard, Nikolaj mines), working under the ground as a collector. Her job was to find out if the gangue contained high levels of radioactivity and whether it could thus be disposed of on the spoil tip. Jiří Blatný was born in 1929 and died after a series of serious health problems in August 2003. It is certain that his health was damaged by his long imprisonment and mining of radioactive uranium. He was sentenced to thirteen years for high treason and espionage. He was close to the resistance group Tábor (Camp), which was led by Petr Křivka, who was later executed. The group contained communist agent provocateurs.

Jáchymov

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Jáchymov was founded in the 16th century as a center of silver mining. The historic center of Jáchymov is a national-heritage conservation area today. In the 20th century, extensive uranium mining took place in the vicinity of the town, carried out mainly by political prisoners. Today, the mines are no longer in operation, and a biathlon shooting range and track have been built in the area of the Eduard mine.

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