Anti-communist analyst

Translator’s Biography of Miroslav Dolejsi

Miroslav Dolejsi was born in Velke Potocno near the city of Kladno, Czechoslovakia, on 20 November
1931. He died 26 June 2001. Dolejsi opposed communist rule in Czechoslovakia. He was expelled from
school for anti-communist activities in 1951. He was arrested and sentenced in 1952 to a 23-year prison
term for high treason and espionage against the communist state. Released from prison during the
general amnesty of May 1960, Dolejsi was arrested again in 1976 and sentenced to 11 years for
conspiracy to commit espionage, harming the state, damaging its economy and revealing state secrets.
He was sentenced to the third level (the worst) of a state re-education prison facility in 1977 and was
released for serious health problems in 1986. As a former political prisoner, Dolejsi worked in 1990 as an
advisor to Czechoslovak Interior Minister Richard Sacher. As a publicly known political prisoner in the
communist system, Dolejsi was allowed to work in the Interior Ministry of the new post-communist regime,
but he quickly discovered that his token presence within the Czech Interior Ministry was part of an
elaborate deception.

Dolejsi was skeptical of the new regime and used his access to information within the Interior Ministry to
conduct a private study that would ultimately cost him his job. Due to information uncovered by Dolsejsi,
Interior Minister Richard Sacher was seriously embarrassed and subsequently replaced by Jan Ruml.
After Dolejsi’s analysis was published in a small newspaper, Dolejsi was denounced for questioning the
collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. Michael Zantovsky, alongside other high-level government
officials, wanted Dolejsi charged with slander (which is punishable under Czech law by up to three years
in prison). An official named Rudolf Hegenbart filed a lawsuit against Dolejsi for writing his analysis.
Dolejsi was acquitted and his analysis was upheld against Hegenbart and the secret communist
structures seeking to suppress his findings. Afterwards the communists decided that direct attacks on
Dolejsi’s credibility were unprofitable. Such attacks merely gave publicity to the idea that the changes in
the communist bloc were equivocal or deceptive. So the attacks on Dolejsi stopped.

Miroslav Dolejsi’s analysis, presented below, questions what has been widely accepted as a genuine
change away from communism in Eastern Europe. Dolejsi presents a body of evidence and analysis
showing that the hidden machinery of the communist state, through the use of deceptive tactics,
maintains control of Czechoslovakia.  

As a Christian (Catholic), Miroslav Dolejsi worked against the communist regime and served 18 and-a-half
years in communist prisons. He allegedly helped the French intelligence service to gather valuable
information on communist operations in Czechoslovakia.

History will judge the heroic stand of Miroslav Dolejsi, as it will judge those who stood by and did nothing,
remaining silent before the great evil of our time. Dolejsi fought tirelessly against the communist regime
and its lies. He paid a heavy price. May God rest his soul in Heaven.

HONZA MALINA, April 2004.

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