Declaration of the Society for the Restoration of Lidice issued after Josef HORÁK emigrated from the communist Czechoslovakia: “The Society for the Restoration of Lidice and the Lidice Municipal Authorities declare that former major Josef HORÁK, member of the British Royal Air Force during the war, has nothing to do with this Society and the Municipal Authorities. Josef HORÁK has no right to speak abroad on behalf of Lidice. After the liberation, he did not find the right way and was not interested about the needs of the Lidice people. As a member of the Lidice Municipal Authorities, he was completely passive and had to be thus removed from this body for his often absences and incompetence. He … obstructing the resurrection of Lidice by intentionally withholding financial resource with the objective to cause discontent among the Lidice women and the public. By doing so, he was following the crooked interests of the National Socialist Party …. He completed his destructive and subversive activities by illegally emigrating to England with his English wife, not considering the fact that he is committing desertion and breaching his military oath, which he took to his home country. The Society for the Restoration of Lidice and the Lidice women condemn with outrage the actions and escape of major Josef HORÁK as an deterrent example of an arrogant man who has lost contact with and relations to his people, from whom he had arose, and who joined the capitalist reactionaries, sumptuous lifestyle of whom has blinded him. His acts and especially his last one cannot be characterized in any other way than a treason against the holy memory of Lidice and against the nation.” It is not necessary to add that nothing is further from the truth than this allegation. State Regional Archive Kladno, fund Společnost pro obnovu Lidic a Ležáků (NAD 810), in. č. 11, karton č. 3, Zápis ze schůze správního výboru z 25. 5. 1948.

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