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Drahomír Strnadel was born on August 15, 1941 in Trojanovice. He graduated from the Institute of Education in Ostrava and went on to become a teacher at a secondary vocational school in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm. After August 1968, the military barracks in Fernštát were occupied by a Soviet garrison, which deeply affected Drahomír, who expressed his disapproval of the occupation. When the car of the Commander of the Soviet soldiers passed him, he spat in front of it. Communist functionaries made an affair out of this incident that was handled as a case by various institutions. Drahomír Strnadel was penalized by being banned from teaching in the Nový Jičín district that Frenštát lies in. But he could start a job at a vocational school in the nearby Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, as it lies in a different district. However, he continued to get into trouble with the regime. For example, at a meeting he refused to express his condemnation of the Charter 77 and left the room. He also participated in the distribution of Samizdat literature. One of his hobbies was researching the emigration flow from Wallachia to Texas. In fact, he wrote a number of academic papers on this topic and was invited to the United States, where he managed to travel even before the fall of the Communist regime in 1989. After the November revolution, he was elected mayor of Trojanovice. He was elected several times, and was appointed mayor for a total of four electoral terms. He strongly advocated for the mining company Ostrava-Karviná Mines to retreat from their intention to start mining coal in the Beskydy Mountains.
