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World War II veteran Vladimír Hrozný died on January 6 at the age of 100. He spent his last years in Brno. The head of the Military History Association, Renata Dan Urbanek, informed about the death.
The final farewell will take place on Saturday from 1:00 p.m. in the Nostalgie ballroom in Modřice near Brno. According to the Department of War Veterans of the Ministry of Defense, there are currently 82 World War II veterans living in the country, said ministry spokesman Karel Čapek.
Vladimír Hrozný was born on May 5, 1923 in the Ussuri taiga in Russia. After Nazi Germany invaded Russia, he voluntarily joined the Red Army, where he first served as an infantryman on the front near Leningrad and later as a pilot of the Ilyushin Il-2 fighter aircraft. After he was injured in the bombing of the airport in 1944, he could no longer fly and became an explorer. He reached Czechoslovakia via Bessarabia (Moldova), Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria and fought in southern Moravia. During the Prague Uprising he went to Prague as a scout, where the end of the war caught up with him. In total he was wounded four times.
After the war, Hrozný married a Czech woman and received Czechoslovakian citizenship. In 1946 he and his wife went to the Soviet Union, and the wife then returned. However, the Soviet authorities did not allow Hrozny to return. When he wanted to cross the border illegally, he was reported and arrested by a smuggler, but escaped during transport to Lviv and crossed the Czechoslovak border.
Hrozný then lived in Bratislava and earned his living as a car mechanic. But he was arrested again and sentenced to ten plus three years in the Gulag, where he spent several years. After the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, he returned to Czechoslovakia, but his wife had already remarried. Hrozný then worked in the mines in Ostrava and in the state tractor factory in North Moravia. He was rehabilitated in Russia after his imprisonment in the Gulag in 2004. “Crimes were worse than war, hunger, a person was zero and slave labor twelve hours a day,” Hrozný said of the nation’s terrible memory.
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