To avoid the compulsory military service, I simulated suicide attempts
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Václav Mazalovský was born on 19 February 1952 in Batelov near Jihlava. His mother came from Vysočina, his father was a native of Prague, a waiter by profession, who worked in restaurants U Pinkasů and U Jelínků. Until 1962, Václav lived with his mother and three siblings in Batelov, while his father stayed in Prague for work. In 1962, the family moved to Prague, but after three years, the parents divorced, and the children stayed with their mother. Václav apprenticed to a plumber but never made a living as a plumber. In the 1970s and 1980s, he washed windows and shop windows, first at the company Úklid Praha, later at Textile and Clothing Praha, which reportedly provided him with above-average earnings and a lot of free time. He surrounded himself with the so-called „máničkas“, just like his older brother Miroslav, who was sentenced to four months‘ imprisonment in 1966 for participating in a demonstration of the „máničkas“. In the 1970s, Václav Mazalovský evaded compulsory military service by faking suicide attempts several times before being given a „blue book“. During the normalisation period, he was close to the Prague underground, devoted himself to music, experimented with psychedelics and searched for spiritual meaning. He became acquainted with the teachings and philosophy of the Hare Krishna movement, which was illegal at the time. After 1989, he became involved in the emerging Czech Hare Krishna community. In 1993, he began attending the new centre of the movement in Modřany and later lived and worked in the community in Zličín and Lužce. In 2025, he lived in the Hare Krishna spiritual community in Lužce with his wife and daughter.
