Vaclav Sotola's guest appearances

Vaclav Sotola

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John Hughes

John Green

Samuel Johnson

John Gonzalez

Phyllis Johnson

David McDonald

Paul Stewart

Tom Smith

Eric Brown

Craig LeHoullier

Mark King

Joe Murphy

Richard Perez

Tim Albright

Abby Maslin

OwlTail

Vaclav Sotola left Prague, Czechoslovakia with his mother, fleeing a politically constrained communist country before the fall of the Berlin wall. He experienced a recurring dream when he first arrived in the United States, via Yugoslavia and Austria: he would go for an evening walk in the woods until he heard steps behind him and large men were following to capture him, he would run, they would pursue, and then he would wake up. Now, a teacher in Canajoharie and swim coach for Guilderland and Voorheesville, Sotola is ready to retire and still sometimes thinks and dreams in Czech. Listen to more of his story on the latest podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vaclav Sotola left Prague, Czechoslovakia with his mother, fleeing a politically constrained communist country before the fall of the Berlin wall. He experienced a recurring dream when he first arrived in the United States, via Yugoslavia and Austria: he would go for an evening walk in the woods until he heard steps behind him and large men were following to capture him, he would run, they would pursue, and then he would wake up. Now, a teacher in Canajoharie and swim coach for Guilderland and Voorheesville, Sotola is ready to retire and still sometimes thinks and dreams in Czech. Listen to more of his story on the latest podcast. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Vaclav Sotola, from Czechoslovakia to Guilderland

Listen as Canajoharie teacher Vaclav Sotola describes his dramatic defection from communist controlled Czechoslovakia at the height of the Cold War.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blakesmithstoriespast/message

Listen as Canajoharie teacher Vaclav Sotola describes his dramatic defection from communist controlled Czechoslovakia at the height of the Cold War.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/blakesmithstoriespast/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/blakesmithstoriespast/message</a>

The defection of Vaclav Sotola 1980