On January 2, 1989, Petr Nedved, playing for a Litvínov based team, left his hotel room in the middle of the night and walked into a Calgary police station declaring his intention to defect from Czechoslovakia.
The Czechoslovak Army Mine (Czech: Lom Československé armády, shortened to Lom ČSA) is an opencast brown coal mine located in the North Bohemian Basin of the Czech Republic in the area known in Czech as Mostecko that lies between the city of Most and the town of Litvínov.
As a schoolboy, he was devoted to the cult of Stalin, and was tapped, unsuccessfully, by the KGB to report on his parents Flora and Misha Litvinov (a story that is related by the journalist David Remnick in his book Lenin's Tomb).
In the latter, Litvinov described it from a cultivated tree in Samarkand.