On October 28, President Miloš Zeman will honor Josef Mašín at the memoriam, who was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group Tři králové. His daughter Zdena Mašínová confirmed this to the server Seznam Zprávy. At the same time, he said that he himself refused to accept the award from the president. The server also stated that the award should go to the director of the Central Military Hospital, Miroslav Zavoral, who was the doctor who treated Zeman.
“Yes, it is. I was told that the award will be given to our father by the President. The award must be received by the Minister of Defense Jana ernochová, because I refuse to accept it from the hands of the President,” he said. Message list Mašinova. According to him, Josef Mašín should receive the Order of Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk, the second highest state award.
The server drew attention to the fact that relations between Zeman and Mašínová were not good, among other things, because the president had long refused to honor his brothers Josef and Ctirad, who opposed the communist regime with guns in their hands in the beginning. 1950s.
Their father, Lieutenant Colonel Josef Mašín, was a legendary figure of the Czechoslovak resistance during the Second World War. Together with Václav Morávek and Josef Balabán, he formed the intelligence sabotage group Tři králové, which was joined by thousands of police officers led by the Gestapo in the protectorate. The natives of Lošan near Kolín were primarily responsible for sabotage activities and supplying the resistance with weapons. In 1941 he was captured by the Gestapo and 80 years ago, on June 30, 1942, the Germans executed him.
Several brave officers worked with various illegal organizations and gathered information about events in the protectorate, which they passed on to the government in exile in London. Messages from Prime Minister Alois Eliáš, the common people and the Czech Gestapo are irreplaceable for foreign resistance.
No less important is the group’s sabotage activities. The three kings and their comrades set fire to factories and destroyed dozens of locomotives. Among their most famous acts were the bombings on German territory: in Leipzig, Munich and Berlin, where the candidate number two of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler, escaped death at the Anhalt railway station in February 1941.
October 28 this year will be the last time Zeman will be able to award the country’s top honors in his capacity as president. He had previously announced that he would hear proposals to award the country’s highest honorary award, the Order of the White Lion, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In a speech at the state awards ceremony in March, he highlighted Zelensky’s courage and bravery during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In a September interview on radio Frekvence 1, he also stated that he would be presenting an award in memory of singer Hana Zagorová. The nine-time Golden Nightingale award winner died in August at the age of 75.
According to Seznam Zpráv, internist and gastroenterologist Zavoral, who treated Zeman during his stay at the Military Central Hospital last year, will be the next recipient of the award. “The list of persons nominated for the award by the President of the Republic, signed by the Prime Minister, is published by Prague Castle, so I will refrain from commenting on whether or not they are among the persons nominated for the award by the President of the Republic,” the spokesperson said. talk to Jitka Zinke hospital to the server.
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