A presidential photograph, then seven years in the minesSourced
He sent out an irreverent photo of the president.
Then came the uranium mines.
Czechoslovak photographer Jindřich Marco supplied a foreign agency with an irreverent photograph of President Klement Gottwald. Days later, a 1950 show trial sentenced him to ten years. He was forced to work in uranium mines and was released in 1957.
One photograph preceded
a very different life.
Summary / translation: Unbubly · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source and reuse details
Jindřich Marco · Wikimedia contributors
Adapted, summarized and translated from the source. Adapted text is also available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reviewed: 2026-10-01