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Old 8th Apr 2019, 20:15
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Pali
 
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I've been listening recently to a stunning story how general Heliodor Píka and his son escaped via Romania to France and then to England. Actually H. Píka was in charge of selling about 1/3 of Czechoslovak armament to Haganah in 1938 so Hitler wouldn't be able to use it in case of capitulation. Píka worked at Czechoslovak embassy as a military attaché in Bucharest and organised the escape route not just for Czechs but also for Poles. It was a remarkable story and also a very sad one as H. Píka was sentenced to death by communist regime in 1949 in a show trial.

Story was narrated by his son Milan Píka who was member of RAF (died very recently on 19th of March 2019) and I could hardly keep tears back when he talked about being with his father the night before execution.



Milan and Heliodor Píka after war
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