Students at Masaryk Gymnasium in Vsetín uncovered a remarkable story of resistance against the communist regime. Břetislav Král managed to escape from the uranium mines near Jáchymov in 1949. He had been imprisoned there for distributing anti-communist leaflets. Following his escape, Král lived in secrecy for the next forty years within the Wallachia region. During this prolonged period of hiding, he was intercepted and checked by the SNB police on two separate occasions. He remained undetected until he finally turned himself in to the police in the spring of 1990.