Obey the law, don‘t procrastinate and do what I shouldn‘t
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Zbyněk Janovský was born on 27 May 1932 in Horní Kostelc in the Náchod region. His father, Karel Janovský, helped the partisans to get weapons at the end of the war during the uprising in Jilemnice in the Krkonoše region. Two men from Hrabačov died during a clash with the retreating Germans. In 1946, Zbyněk Janovský joined the restored Junák in Jilemnice, was a member of the Psohlavci troop and was nicknamed Raven. After the communist coup in 1948, the Scouts had to stop their activities, they were forced to join the communist-controlled Youth Union. Zbyněk Janovský preferred working out in a Sokol gym. From 1949 to 1951 he studied at the Secondary Industrial Textile School in Jilemnice. After graduation he worked briefly in a textile factory in Slané, then completed two years of basic military service with the anti-aircraft gunners in Opatovice in the Pardubice region. After his military service, he joined the Kapnar plant near Jilemnice as a setter in the preparation room. Eventually he was transferred to a spinning mill in Poniklá, then to the Pramen plant, where he worked as a clerk until 1960. After the reorganisation he moved to the Jednota cooperative, where he stayed until 1992. He joined the Scouts twice more. In 1968, when the Junák in Jilemnice was restored by brother Emil Stach, he served as a treasurer of a scout troop. At the end of 1969 the communists banned scouting again. He joined Junák for the third time in 1990 after the Velvet Revolution. He worked as a treasurer and later as a secretary of the Jilm Scout Centre. Together with his wife Bohumila Janovská, née Dostálová, they raised two daughters. In 2025 he lived in Jilemnice.
