MEMORY BOX
May 09, 2019
3 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHY: BOYSPLAYNICE
WRITER: ADAM ŠTĚCH
ompared to cosmopolitan Prague and the industrial powerhouse of Brno, Zlín was just a sleepy provincial Czech town before local entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa founded his shoemaking business there in 1894. With his help, the small Moravian town played a crucial role in the former Czechoslovakia’s journey towards prosperity and innovation, which led to it becoming one of the most developed countries in the world in the 1920s and 1930s – not least thanks to the spread
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