The five peasants from the village knew they were going to go
František Průša was born on 11 October 1947 in Plasná in South Bohemia, where he lived his whole life. Both his parents were farmers and worked on their own land. In the early 1950s the family’s fields were confiscated and in 1953 the family was forced to join a cooperative farm. He attended primary school in Kardašova Řečice and in 1965 he trained as a repairer of agricultural machinery at the State Tractor Centre in Jindřichův Hradec. After school he joined the cooperative farm in Plasná, where he worked in the workroom and drove tractors until the revolution. He did not join compulsory military service because of a childhood injury. After 1989 he applied for the return of the land on which he then farmed and ran his business. He was married and raised two daughters. By 2024, the witness was no longer farming and was renting out the fields.