Soviet soldiers were in Klánovice until the 1990s
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Jitka Frýdmanová, née Kinštová, was born on 9 October 1954 in Žatec. Her parents were teachers, and she and her younger brother grew up in a pedagogical environment that shaped her significantly. She remembers the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968. Because of her father‘s activities during the occupation, Jitka Frýdmanová did not get into university, so after graduating from the Na Pražačce Gymnasium, she started working. After graduation, she took a job as an educator in an orphanage in Klánovice. Later she completed her secondary pedagogical school by distance learning. In 1977 she married and she and her husband had three children. She was a participant in the demonstrations during the Velvet Revolution. In the 1990s, she left her job at the orphanage, graduated from the Library Institute at the National Library and became the head of the library in Klánovice. She worked there until her retirement. In 2025 she lived in Klánovice, Prague.