In 2015, Obrtel formed the Czechoslovak Soldiers in Reserves, a pro-Russian right-wing paramilitary, but left it later that year following an internal falling-out with its members.
[4] Obrtel retired from the Czech military in 2006, after which he became director of the Pardubice Region Medical Rescue Service and worked as a doctor in Moravia.
[4] On 22 December 2014, Obrtel published an open letter to Minister of Defence Martin Stropnický asking to return the medals he earned for his service in NATO operations.
The CSR "rejects the aggressive and pro-war policy of the Czech and Slovak political elites, as imposed by the USA and the EU"; refuses participation in "acts of aggression of the global elite through NATO", including any conflict against Russia or its allies; alleges the Czech Republic is a "pseudo-democracy" and has been "unlawfully divided, looted, indebted, people enslaved and their families liquidated by repossession genocide, national infrastructure transferred into the hands of Western corporations"; and views the Russian Armed Forces as "friends" while also viewing Czech politicians as "enemies".
[10]The CSR drew public attention for their appearance in the 2015 commemoration of the Velvet Revolution on 17 November, when members arrived in uniforms to show their support for Zeman during his speech.
The marchers were confronted by anti-fascist demonstrators several times, and both were met by Czech Police riot officers, but the march ultimately ended peacefully.
He ran on a strongly conservative platform based on increasing military strength and national security, fighting against "COVID tyranny" and pharmaceutical industry influence, considering holistic medicine as "a basis for recovery", promoting traditional families over "the influence of gender, LGBTIQ activities, inclusion, juvenile justice or the violent Islamization of children's lives", and shifting the Czech Republic away from liberal democracy.