The best holiday I have at home
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Josef Blažek was born on May 12, 1938 to Josef and Rozália Blažek in Seninka, Vsetín region. He grew up with his younger sisters during the Protectorate and his childhood is thus intertwined with the events of the war. His father died shortly after communism came to power, and Josef joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the age of 17, mainly because of his service in the border guards. He left the party because of his opposition to the events of August 1968. At that time he was already working at Zbrojovka Vsetín and living with his wife and children in an apartment in Vsetín. He lived a more or less peaceful life during the normalisation period and retired early at the age of 58. Apart from his work as a milling machine operator, he had another job almost every weekend since his return from the army, running slaughterhouses in the surrounding villages, and this hobby lasted well into his retirement. In 2025, he and his wife lived in Seninka in his parents‘ renovated house.
