You need to write down everything because paper never tells lies
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František Schmíd was born July 28, 1938 in Červená Řečice as a son of a drugstore owner. Although he had straight A’s in elementary school, he was not allowed to study further due to his family origin. When he was fifteen years old, he enrolled in a vocational school for miners. When it turned out that in contrary to what he had been promised he would be expected to do work under surface, he and six other classmates decided to escape from the school. František then had to face investigation and he had problems finding another job. As a sixteen-year-old he eventually began working in a paper-mill as an operator of paper-producing machinery. While working there, he experienced the impact of the uprising against the communist regime in Hungary in 1956. An innocuous argument between some colleagues occurred in the factory, but somebody informed upon them and investigation began. In 1957 František was drafted to do military service at the radar station in Radonice near Prague. He pursues writing as his hobby - he wrote several stories which were developed into scripts for the TV series Bakaláři and at the time of the recording the interview he was writing stories from his life for the magazine SenSen (Senzační Senior).
