I can’t stop the Wheels of Fate…” : The King of Czech Dance Music, R. A. Dvorsky, Before a Communist Court.
2007
Abstract
The article describes the personal history of the Czech swing musician and swinger R. A.
Dvorsky who was arrested by the state security police in September 1953. He was convicted of attempting to desert the state and conspiracy to commit high treason and was sentenced to five years in prison in February 1954; later the sentence was cut to three and a half years on health grounds.
He was released in May 1960 and died on 02 August 1966.