During the normalisation period they were throwing the capable ones out and replaced them with people who went to work to get drunk
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Františka Lysoňková, born Svozilová, was born on February 3, 1942 in a Zlín maternity hospital, but spent her whole life in a small village near Zlín, in Bohuslavice. Her parents Františka and Josef Svozil worked working class jobs. Her father was a tanner and her mother was a shoemaker. Františka remembers the liberation of Bohuslavice in 1945 and her childhood spent in a Moravian village. For example, she witnessed the collectivization of agriculture and the plowing of borders in the 1950s. Both parents sincerely believed in communist ideas and in a fairer society under the leadership of the Communist Party. To lead by example, they helped out for free in an agricultural cooperative (JZD). Františka graduated from primary school in 1956 and then started a two-year economic school in Gottwaldov (today’s Zlín). She found a job in Svit as a label puncher. However, she wanted to do a more interesting job, so when the opportunity arose to work as a scribe in the Naše pravda (“Our Truth”) editorial office, which fell under the Regional Committee of the Communist Party, she did not hesitate. She was in charge of advertising here. However, the condition was entry into the Communist Party, which she acceded to. She did not pass the examinations in 1970, but was not fired because she was a regular worker. She then worked in the editorial office until 1974, despite the unsatisfactory conditions at the workplace, when incompetent superiors joined the editorial office after the purges in 1970. Alcohol and harassment were the order of the day. Františka married Ladislav Lysoňek in 1961 and gave birth to three children; the second, however, died of a developmental defect after giving birth in 1974. This unfortunate event was apparently the trigger for depression, which developed into a severe form in the following years and she lived with it for thirty years. Františka worked in clerical positions in Prior (a department store chain in former Czechoslovakia) and footwear. She has a creative spirit, which is why she has been involved in the association activities of the municipality of Bohuslavice for several years. She planned and curated exhibitions and various cultural events here. Her lifelong hobbies are folk songs and folklore festivals.
