Stage-managed Revolt

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Milo Komínek was sentenced for anti-communist resistance activities and on October 11, he was transported to prison Bory in Pilsen. “It was a nightmare – chaps locked up in chains. There were not many small-time thieves at Bory, the majority was political prisoners. I was lucky because they put me in a cell with general Pešek, general Nosál, the archdeacon from Domažlice and other high ranks such as soldiers who trained paratroopers abroad.” At Bory it turned out that the communists did not stage-manage only court hearings, but also prison revolts. One of those stage-managed revolts took place at Bory prison in 1950. “It was not a revolt at all, everything was stage-managed. During this so called revolt, they executed major Černý, Pilsen deputy Broj and a guard and policeman Petelík. The purpose of the revolt was to do these people in. They needed to get rid of Černý who trained paratroopers. They needed to get rid of them, because these people were smart.” Guard Petelík was executed as a warning for his colleagues, because sometimes he would bring cigarettes to the prisoners and he treated them more humanely.

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Milo Komínek

Miloslav 'Milo' Komínek was born on 20th July 1926 to Josef Komínek a worker at the iron-works in Frýdek-Místek and his wife Marie. He finished his apprenticeship as a locksmith and a cinema operator. During the Protectorate period, he participated in the underground resistance as most of the members of his family. He helped mainly with the manufacture of explosives and bombs. He was interested in politics, after the war he began to cooperate with the Czechoslovak People's Party. He also passed a flying and parachute training. From 1945 to 1948 he represented Czechoslovakia in aerobatics at air shows all around the world. In 1948 he tried to escape abroad but he was caught and imprisoned for a short time. After his release in summer 1948 he became a part of a resistance group Portáš-Jánošík operating in the North Moravian Beskydy Mountains. The group was soon revealed and its members received severe sentences. Milo Komínek and his five friends, all between 17 and 21 years old, were sentenced to a sum of 53 years in prison... Milo Komínek passed through prisons and camps at Bory, in the Jáchymov area (the Rovnost mine), at Leopoldov and Valdice. He was released in 1965. In 1968 he left the country through Austria and Switzerland to Canada. He ran a small publishing company in Toronto, and he continued these activities even after his return home. Miloslav ‘Milo’ Komínek died on May 25, 2010, two months before celebrating his 84th birthday.

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Plzeň, Bory

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Věznice Bory se nalézá na jižním okraji města Plzeň, poblíž Litické přehrady. Komplex věznice Plzeň-Bory se skládá z ústřední budovy, z níž paprskovitě vybíhají jednotlivá křídla. Výsledný tvar stavby tvoří pravidelný osmihran. Věznice Bory byla v 50. letech 20. století proslulá jako jedna z nejkrutějších věznic s primitivními hygienickými a životními podmínkami. I na samotkách bylo běžně umístěno až pět vězňů. Byla zde uvězněna celá řada známých osobností, například armádní generál Heliodor Píka, který byl na Borech 21. června 1949 popraven. Proběhlo zde tzv. borské povstání, kterého se zúčastnil například bývalý člen Royal Air Force Josef Bryks, který tak ke svému desetiletému trestu z vykonstruovaného procesu z roku 1949 dostal navíc ještě dvacet let trestu za účast na povstání. Povstání bylo pravděpodobně uměle zinscenováno. V pozdějších letech zde byl vězněn například bývalý prezident České republiky Václav Havel. Věznice slouží svému účelu dodnes.