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Major-General Antonin Petrak, who has died aged 96, escaped to Britain after the Nazi invasion of his native Czechoslovakia; he subsequently won the Military Cross and served with the SOE on the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. On his return home, however, he was hounded for decades by the communist regime, which regarded such patriotism as a threat.

A love story, a spy story, disgrace and redemption

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Major-General Antonin Petrak, who has died aged 96, escaped to Britain after the Nazi invasion of his native Czechoslovakia; he subsequently won the Military Cross and served with the SOE on the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. On his return home, however, he was hounded for decades by the communist regime, which regarded such patriotism as a threat.

A love story, a spy story, disgrace and redemption

It would make a great movie as long as Tom Cruise wasn't in it.