We joined the strike on 20 November. We were anxious to know what would happen
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Miloslav Malý was born on 14 October 1957 in Opava. From a young age he learned to play the violin, so after graduating from primary school he applied to the Zlín Conservatory. However, he did not get in and graduated from the grammar school in Šternberk. After graduation he applied to study violin at the Faculty of Education in České Budějovice. Already during his studies he joined the South Bohemian State Orchestra. After university he completed his military service, during which he worked as a violinist in the Army Art Ensemble. At the beginning of the 1980s he won an audition for the State Song and Dance Ensemble, thanks to which he travelled through part of Europe, including Western countries, during the socialist era. With the ensemble he also visited Libya, the the Democratic People‘s Republic of Korea and Iraq. In November 1989, his folklore ensemble was among the first to join the strike. After the revolution, the ensemble was dissolved, and the witness and his colleagues began performing first at the Hotel International, later moving to a restaurant in Veleslavín. Miloslav Malý was professionally engaged in violin playing until the pandemic of covid, when he began to earn a living as a teacher. After the pandemic he returned to playing professionally, but he did not leave his teaching career. In 2025 he was living in Prague.
