in memoriam Vendelín Opatrný (10 March 1908 – 31 October 1944) was an officer of the Czechoslovak 1st Army Corps.

He died during the Battle of the Dukla Pass, at the borders of Czechoslovakia while fighting with the Red Army.

Before entering the Czechoslovak 1st Army Corps in 1937, he fought in the Spanish Civil War as a foreign volunteer.

Just before the Second World War he left his country to Soviet Union.

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