You have lost
Václav Dušek participated in the student march to the Prague Castle on 25 February 1948: “I came to the Faculty of Law and they told me that there would be a march to the Castle in the afternoon, the goal being for President Beneš not to sign the document for the communists. We joined forces at the Faculty of Arts and walked to the Charles Bridge and towards the Castle. I was almost at the end of the Charles Bridge when they started to dissolve the march. I got to the front row. Suddenly I met a gendarme with whom I used to play football in Jaroměř during wartime, his name was Martin. I looked at him and said: ‘Martin, what are you doing here?’ And he said: ‘You have lost, it’s over, Václav, pack it up! The President has signed it.’” The student march was subsequently dissolved by armed forces in Nerudova Street.
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Václav Dušek
Václav Dušek, CSc. was born October 2, 1923 in Potěhy near Čáslav in a family of a railway-employee. Due to his father's profession the family often had to move. Václav studied at elementary and a higher elementary school. In 1938 he began the 2nd grade of the grammar school in Jaroměř, and he graduated in 1945. In 1944 he managed to avoid being sent on forced labour to the Reich thanks to playing soccer for the Slavoj Jaroměř club. From 1944 he was a member of the resistance group "Václavík;" one of their actions included sabotage on a cable leading to general Schörner's command. At the end of the war he guarded the Josefov fortress where he suffered a gunshot injury. After the war he studied law in Prague. He took part in the student march to the Prague castle in February 1948. In 1949 he made an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to West Germany. He worked in the textile factory Mostex in Mostek, in Strojtex in Dvůr Králové and later in AŽD in Prague. From 1970 he worked at the Ministry of Transport, where he focused on labour law.
