Those friendships still exist forty years later
Zdeněk Hruška was born in 1922 in Chrudim. At the age of thirteen, he joined the 5th Scout troop in Hradec Králové and he remained an active member until the early 1940s when their Scout camp was broken up by the Nazis. In 1945, he contributed to the recovery of the Scout organization in Hradec. In the postwar years, he and Milota Fanderlík organized the forest school of the Jirásek area and he was an active leader of the troop. After the war, he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Prague. Later, he worked at the Hradec branch of the Škoda auto company and in 1949 he left to work in Iran, where he returned several times. After the rehabilitation of the Scout in 1989, he was active in the organization of the Old Scouts.