---
title: "Petr Blažek"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Petr Blažek"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Jan Patočka","StB","Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR)","Charter 77"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Czech historian at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
(ÚSTR) who edited a 2017 critical documentary edition of the StB's own
investigative file on philosopher Jan Patočka — *"Kéž je to všecko ku
prospěchu obce!": Jan Patočka v dokumentech Státní bezpečnosti* — built
from 120 previously largely unpublished secret-police documents including
interrogation protocols.

Matters to this vault as the source whose own archival work supplies
nearly everything the vault knows about [[entity-patocka|Jan Patočka]]'s
death and funeral beyond a single 2007 retrospective: a specific
interrogation date, the fate of a post-1989 prosecution attempt, and the
mechanics of the StB's funeral-disruption operation, "Akce Dědek."

## References

- [[claim-blazek-stb-file-dates-patocka-interrogation-3-march-1977-prosecution-halted]]
- [[claim-stb-akce-dedek-disrupted-patocka-funeral-with-helicopter-and-motorcycles]]
- [[claim-jedlicka-adam-stb-informant-conducted-patocka-funeral]]