If the Ten Commandments were kept, the world would be a paradise
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František Kotas was born on 23 February 1937 to Marie and František Kotas. He grew up in his native Bílavsko in the Kroměříž region. There he went to the municipal school. On the twelfth of February 1945, he witnessed a tragic event when a grenade exploded in his classroom, brought and armed by the children themselves. Three of his classmates died as a result of the explosion and several, including the head teacher, suffered serious injuries. He also witnessed events related to the liberation struggle at the end of the Second World War. After graduating from primary school, he was admitted to the secondary technical woodworking school, where he then became one of its first graduates in 1956. He spent the military service from 1957 to 1960 in the Border Guard on the Slovak-Austrian border. From 1956 he worked at the TON company. First in the branch in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm and later, from 1970, in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, where he became the head technologist of the model workshop. During his employment in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, he continued his experience with amateur theatre and staged Paličova dcera (Arsonist´s Daughter) play by J. K. Tyl within the company‘s theatre association. He retired in 1997. He was living in Bystřice pod Hostýnem in 2019 .
