The Fall & Rise of Josef Korbel

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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