Jan Novák · Nordic Comic · 2020
In Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, The Mašín brothers have set up a resistance group against the Stalinist regime in early Europe. iron curtain, It is suspected that a war against communism is going to break out and they want to play their role. His father had fought years ago, but he against the Nazis. They live in an environment of suffocating mistrust in which anyone can tip off, spurred on by an oppressive and corrupt state that tortures, uses women as bait to trap their husbands or brothers, holds unfair trials, carries out extrajudicial executions and sends political prisoners who are traitors to the country to do forced labor in uranium mines. That is the panorama that Jan Novák and Jaromír draw for us 99 to contextualize the escape of a somewhat botched command that ends up seeing flight to the West as the only way out. Fifteen days of atrocious journey in which they do not ration the little food they get because they could be dead in a few hours. Everything is transitory, volatile, all, for now... good. Until not. AU
