I couldn‘t agree with the invasion, so I left the army.
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Zdeněk Kolařík was born on 10 July 1943 in Veselí nad Moravou as the only child of Anna, née Randová and Emanuel Kolařík. His father worked in Veselí as a shoemaker in the Standard company. His parents married during the war, and the marriage soon broke up because of his father‘s liability to drinking. His mother later remarried to Jaroslav Lovecký, who returned from Argentina in 1947. He and Zdeněk did not have a good relationship; he was basically brought up from the age of three by his maternal grandparents, with whom they lived in the same house. Five more children were born from his mother‘s second marriage. Grandfather Tomáš Randa joined the Communist Party in 1948. Zdeněk became a gardener in 1961. At the age of eighteen he accepted the offer to join the party. He started his military service, which he spent from 1962-1964 in Domažlice, as a candidate for membership in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Because he did not want to return to his mother or to work in the gardening industry, he decided to stay in the army. He served in Domažlice and Hodonín. He left the army after the invasion of our territory by the Warsaw Pact troops in the spring of 1969. At the same time, his membership in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was not renewed. He then worked for Czechoslovak Railways, where he worked his way up to the position of administrative freight transport technician. He lived in Prague for several years, then returned to Moravia. In the 1980s, he helped to send mail secretly from the Archbishop‘s Palace in Prague, so that it would not pass through the control of State Security. In 2025, he lived in Litovany in Vysočina.
