Karel Kubánek - Jilemnice, Czech Republic
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Karel Kubánek was a pilot of the Czechoslovak army. He died in a Russian gulag.
Waymark Code: WM134EH
Location: Liberecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 09/13/2020
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Podplukovník Karel Kubánek, (29. ríjna 1916 Jilemnice – 1940 nebo 1941? Sovetský svaz, místo neznámé), byl letec ceskoslovenské armády. V roce 1939 odešel z vlasti, aby za její samostatnost mohl bojovat. Zahynul v ruském gulagu.
V cervnu 1938 byl jmenován letcem pozorovatelem. Po vzniku Protektorátu Cechy a Morava byl jako jeho príslušník ze slovenské armády propušten a vrátil se do Jilemnice. Spolu s letci Karlem Kopalem z Tríce a Janem Vlkem ze Semil se pokusil zapojit do odboje jako zahranicní voják. S pomocí semilských clenu odbojové skupiny Obrana národa, vedených Františkem Hyškou, prekrocili v noci z 5. na 6. srpna 1939 hranice do Polska. Již 28. srpna byla skupina letcu, ve které byl Kubánek, prijata do polské armády, jako clenové tzv. Legie Cechu a Slováku v Polsku. Krátce na to, 1. zárí 1939, napadlo Nemecko Polsko.
17. zárí 1939 napadl Polsko i Sovetský svaz a 19. zárí 1939 byla legie Rudou armádou zajata. Karel Kubánek se po zajetí pokusil s nekolika práteli znovu, jinou cestou, dostat do Rumunska. Znovu byl zatcen NKVD, vyslýchán, obvinen ze špionáže a odsouzen na tri roky nucených prací. K jejich provedení byl odvezen do povodí reky Pecory, kde byl internován v jednom z tamních gulagu a v nem zahynul.
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Lieutenant Colonel Karel Kubánek, (October 29, 1916 Jilemnice - 1940 or 1941? Soviet Union, place unknown), was a pilot in the Czechoslovak army.
In June 1938 he was appointed an observer pilot. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, he was released from the Slovak army as a member of it and returned to Jilemnice.
Together with the pilots Karel Kopal from Tríc and Jan Vlk from Semily, he tried to join the resistance as a foreign soldier. With the help of members of the resistance group Defense of the Nation, they crossed the border into Poland on the night of August 5-6, 1939. Already on August 28, a group of pilots, in which Kubánek was, was accepted into the Polish army, as members of the so-called Legion of Czechs and Slovaks in Poland. Shortly afterwards, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland.
On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded to Poland and on September 19, 1939, the legion was captured by the Red Army. After captivity, Karel Kubánek and several friends tried to get to Romania again, in a different way. He was arrested again by the NKVD, interrogated, charged with espionage and sentenced to three years of forced labor. To carry them out, he was taken to the Pecory river basin, where he was interned in one of the local gulags and died in it.
Plaque Inscription:
ZDE SE 29.10.1916 NARODIL LETEC CS ARMÁDY
pplk. KAREL KUBÁNEK
ROKU 1939 ODEŠEL BOJOVAT ZA VLAST
ZAHYNUL V RUSKÉM GULAGU ZA POLÁRNÍM KRUHEM ROKU 1940 ? 1941
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