I don‘t understand people who can say that things were better under the Communists

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Petr Mamula was born on 28 September 1957 in Prague, where he grew up in Žižkov with his maternal grandparents. His grandfather was a white guard who managed to emigrate to Czechoslovakia in 1920. There he was convicted as a Ukrainian nationalist in 1948, but the real reason was his refusal to join the Communist Party. Father Zdenek Mamula left the party in January 1968. Petr Mamula graduated from a secondary technical school, but he did not have a good cadre reference for university. He started working in restaurant services, which brought him an above-average income. He was willing to join the Communist Party for promotion, but his admission was not approved. He tried to emigrate, which he succeeded in doing only just before the Velvet Revolution. He took part in the Palach´s Week protests and organised the signing of the petition Several Words. After the Velvet Revolution he worked in a family business in advertising and promotion. He has lived in Prague all his life.