Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:00:39 +0200Oldest Czech legionnaire was never able to clear tarnished reputationhttps://english.radio.cz/oldest-czech-legionnaire-was-never-able-clear-tarnished-reputation-8077062© 2026 Radio Prague International The oldest Czech soldier to fight in World War I, Alois Vocasek, died at the age of 107 on Saturday, the last survivor of the battle of Zborov in Ukraine. He was one of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks who broke with the Austrio-Hungarian monarchy to fight for the dream of a future Czechoslovak state. But, later the soldier tarnished his hero's reputation when he joined a Czech fascist organisation in the 1930s. Jan Velinger reports now on the controversial life and times of Alois Vocasek - the man - and the legionnaire. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Oldest Czech legionnaire was never able to clear tarnished reputation https://english.radio.cz/oldest-czech-legionnaire-was-never-able-clear-tarnished-reputation-8077062 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9