Abstract
The article focuses on two migrants from Czech Lands/Czechoslovakia to Mexico. Rudolf Sudek in 1905 sought better life in Panzacola (Tlaxcala); his son Bedřich was born on the Mexican soil.
After surviving the turbulent times of Mexican Revolution and the economic crisis of the 1930s, their paths were separated by the Second World War and the Communist putsch in Czechoslovakia. Father and son only met in 1956, when Bedřich was allowed to visit his ageing parents and decided to stay permanently in Mexico.
Thanks to several unique corpuses of documents, it is possible not only to trace the life histories of the two protagonists, but also their opinions, their life strategies, details of everyday life in drowsy town in central Mexico that, however, felt the impact of the national and global turbulences - the Revolution, the Great Crisis, the Second World War and the Cold War.