Alica Bieliková, a former editor, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and a long-time employee of the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic, died on Wednesday after a long illness. TASR was informed about it by her son Peter Bielik, a well-known moderator of TA3.

In the past, Bieliková also worked for the daily Smena as a presenter at Slovak Radio, where she worked for 23 years. She worked in the Office of the President of the Slovak Republic during the presidency of Presidents Rudolf Schuster and Ivan Gašparovič.

Alica Bieliková was born on June 26, 1942 in Malacky. After graduating from university, she worked in the editorial office of the daily Smena, where she also met her future husband, photojournalist Lac Bielik. They were married on August 17, 1968, just before the invasion of the occupying forces of the Soviet Union and other Allies from the Warsaw Pact.

“August 17, 1968, it was the day of our wedding. On the morning of the 21st, Aunt Valent, with whom I lived, told me that we were occupied by tanks. Laco first photographed from the window, then ran outside.” she recalled in one of the radio interviews the tragic moments of the days of August 1968. It was then that an iconic photograph of her husband was taken, in which he captured a man with a bare chest in front of a Soviet tank.

Alica Bieliková has lived at the Slovak Radio for 23 years. She was the editor of Mikrofóra, Dobré ráno. After November ’89, she stood at the birth of Rádiožurnál, which Slovak Radio broadcast for the first time on March 5, 1990.

“Up-to-date information needs to be broadcast, though.” her principle sounded. With a microphone, she recorded all the key events of the 90s.

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