Release from the Communist hard labor camps in 1959 was not the end of Josef Korbel’s story. In fact, life somehow got even more difficult after his return - disconnected from his family, suffering from radiation-related sickness & crippling panic attacks, followed by his son’s soul-crushing murder. His trials reached a boiling point in 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, re-imposing strict authoritarian laws, including dispatching the State Secret Police to find and arrest none other than Josef Korbel himself...

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