We were not burdened by the communist morals
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Pavel Krátký was born June 24, 1929 in Prague, but he spent his childhood and youth in Hradec Králové. His father was a legionnaire in Russia, where he fought in the battle of Bakhmach, and his mother worked as a teacher. In 1945-1948 Pavel Krátký studied the secondary school of agriculture, then he spent two semesters at the University of Agriculture, but he had to leave the school due to his family background (his father owned land in the Lanškroun region and he was marked as a kulak, and his two sisters lived in the West). Pavel attended a one-year course in the cooperative in Chrudim. In November 1950 he was drafted to the 51st Auxiliary Technical Battalion (PTP) in Mimoň. He spent two years in the PTP and apart from Mimoň he also served in Šternberk, Lešany and in Prague-Střešovice, where he worked on the construction of the Central Military Hospital. At the end of 1952 he signed a three-year commitment to work in military construction in order to be able leave the Auxiliary Technical Battalions. However, he had to go to work in agriculture soon after. Thanks to his wife he found a job in a large-scale fattening-station in Čepí, where he worked until his retirement in 1989. He is now the chairman of the district branch of the PTP Union in Pardubice.
