A fight broke out in a pub over a Soviet flag
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Vlastimil Jahoda was born on 22 October 1948 in Bošovice near Slavkov into the family of Josef Jahoda and Pavlína Jahodová, who ran a butcher‘s shop and a municipal pub. The family business was gradually liquidated after 1948 by nationalisation and the intervention of the communist regime. His father, a trained butcher and sausage maker, invested in the local slaughterhouse. However, he lost everything and in 1952 the family moved to Krčmaň. Vlastimil Jahoda was the youngest of four siblings. In 1953, the family was hit by the currency reform, during which they lost a large sum of cash. His mother worked in the local cooperative farm, his father in the meat industry in Přerov. He died prematurely at the age of 50. The mother was left alone with three children and the family lived in very modest circumstances. Vlastimil Jahoda studied at the secondary agricultural school in Olomouc, graduating in 1968 during the Prague Spring. In the summer of 1968, he joined the state farm in Bílá Voda as a trainee. The farm was later taken over by Oseva. In 1969, he got into a political conflict after he removed a Soviet flag from the farm building. This was followed by a police investigation, a fine of 100 CZK and surveillance. He worked as a livestock specialist in Bílá Voda and later as a manager in Bílý Potok. In 1988, under pressure of losing his job, he joined the Communist Party. He was a member of the party only until 1989. After the collapse of Oseva, he became one of the founding members of the new agricultural company SABAS Javorník, where he worked as a manager and agronomist in Bílý Potok. He refused offers to join new political parties after 1989. He retired at the age of 64. He and his wife Ludmila raised two sons and were living in Bílé Voda at the time of the recording (2025).
