They came to help Slovakia, they came back in a cattle truck
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František Dusil was born on 25 August 1934 in Šurany, Slovakia, into a Czech family as the third son of František and Marie Dusil. His father worked in Slovakia as a chief inspector of the Financial Guard, where he came to help with the staffing of the state administration after the establishment of Czechoslovakia. After 1938 the family had to leave Slovakia due to the prevailing anti-Czech setniment and settled in Podklášteří near Třebíč. During the occupation, his father worked as a secretary at an office. In 1940, the Gestapo searched the Dusil‘s apartment. Three uncles - Václav, Antonín and František Fant - escaped from the Protectorate. Major General František Fanta fought in foreign troops alongside Ludvík Svoboda and Karel Klapálek. After 1948 he refused to join the Communist Party and was forced to retire. František Dusil Jr. studied at the grammar school in Třebíč, except for the years 1946-1949, when the family lived in Mikulov. At the beginning of the fifties he was employed as a student at the Youth Construction on the railway Křižanov - Brno. After graduation he was not admitted to the Faculty of Education in Brno and joined the Kovosvit n. p. in Třebíč. After a work injury, he worked in the state enterprise Restaurants and Canteens. After the war he became a basketball and handball coach and later worked at Gustav Kliment‘s factories as a corporate psychologist-sociologist. After 1968, he had to undergo political screenings. After 1990 he took early retirement. After the division of Czechoslovakia, the authorities granted him Slovak citizenship and he had to apply for Czech citizenship. He continued to work as a coach in Třebíč and received many awards. In 2024, the city inducted him into its Hall of Fame. In 2025 František Dusil lived in Třebíč.
