Cyril Musil

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Cyril Musil (born November 26, 1907 in Studnice , Moravia , † April 17, 1977 in Collingwood , Canada ) was a Czechoslovak cross-country skier , vice world champion over 4 × 10 km and resistance fighter against National Socialism and Communism .

Life

The farmer's son has been skiing since childhood. During his military service in Jihlava in 1928 he was delegated to Štrba in the High Tatras for ski training and subsequently achieved top placings in the Czechoslovak army in ski competitions. National and international successes followed in the 1930s. At this time Musil inherited his father's estate in Studnice. After the German occupation , Musil became the central point of contact for national resistance in the Vysočina from 1941 . He supported the development and work of the resistance groups R 3, Calcium, Tungsten, Platinum-Pewter and Bauxite operating in the Saar mountains . At the end of 1944, resistance fighters Rudolf Pernický and Leopold Musil , who had flown in from Italy, made contact with Cyril Musil and joined the Calcium group as subdivision R 3-a.

After the communist coup of 1948 , Musil was targeted by the Státní bezpečnost . On August 8, 1949, the " Kulak of Studnice", who had resisted forced collectivization, was arrested by eight members of the State Security Service on his pastures on Pohledecká skála. In a show trial of 25 people from the Nové Město na Moravě area , prison terms of 321 years were imposed in Jihlava . He was accused u. a. illegal gun possession . Musil owned a collection of 42 firearms, some of which came from the disarmament of German troops at the end of World War II or which he had bought from Soviet and Romanian soldiers afterwards. Musil was sentenced to 20 years of severe imprisonment and sent to Bory Prison . After illness he was transferred to Ilava and released in 1961 as part of an amnesty . The merits of Musil in the fight against the National Socialists and his sporting successes were hushed up in Czechoslovakia after 1948.

Together with his wife Růžena, who was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for supporting her husband in 1955 and then to 17 years in prison for "high treason", Musil moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . In Frankfurt am Main he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when an agent shot him twice at close range. Later he missed a throw with a full beer bottle in Nuremberg . Musil then left the Federal Republic of Germany out of concern for his life and moved to Canada . In Collingwood he ran the Pension Cyril Musil Ski Shop and Motel . On April 22, 1977, Musil was found dead in his pension.

In 2007, Cyril Musil was posthumously made an honorary citizen of Nové Město na Moravě .

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SURNAME Musil, Cyril
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovakian skier, vice world champion, resistance fighter against National Socialism and Communism
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Studnice
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1977
Place of death Collingwood