Jak se kalila voda aneb Dětská setkání s bolševikem

On one hundred and fifty pages with a number of black and white drawings by the author, the book tells of the confusion that the phenomena accompanying the transition from democracy to totalitarianism caused in the mind of a young boy. He himself was born during the war, enjoyed a few years of freedom and started school in the autumn of the turbulent year 1949. In the very first class, completely unfamiliar words and absurd situations began to rain down on him. And as soon as he managed to grasp something of the Bolshevik absurdity, the next course of events turned everything upside down again. Although the fierce initial pace of the class struggle began to slow down in the mid-fifties, by the time he graduated from high school, with which his narrative ends, he was doing his best to keep up with the Bolsheviks.

Mydlík, alias RNDr Miroslav Krůta CSc, was born in Prague in 1943. His childhood was strongly influenced by the fact that both his parents were scouts and he himself was a member of a scout troop surviving under the wings of Svazarm from the age of nine. After graduating from high school, he studied geology with a specialization in paleontology. After graduation, he remained at the faculty as an assistant and after ten years he moved to the Geological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he studied Paleozoic ostracods and remained until his retirement. He also participated in the Elborz Zagros 1969 and Cotopaxi 1972 volcanological expeditions and in geological mapping in the Libyan Sahara. In retirement, he translated a number of books from English and organized courses of the Tai Chi Chuan school of Thomas Nowakowski at his farm Zlatý Kopec near Čakovice.