Michal Kalina

"When... when there was a war, the Second World War, and when... then the Romanians came, when liberation was already underway... the Romanians came and among them were some Russian soldiers, so the commanders were Russians. And I know that the Romanians also fought against the Soviet Union back then, but then everything went wrong and they joined their side. And so they then fought with the Russians, with the Soviets. Well, there was one... as they mentioned... as they mentioned that one... On the stairs, as you entered the house and there was a door, there was such a hole. And we, as children, always fiddled with it and used our thumb to poke the hole into that hole... into that step. And then why is it there? And one... of these two Russians who lived with us, one was really so polite and intelligent. it was possible to talk with them... with him, really, because he understood Slovak well, our people could talk to him. The other was such that he wanted no one but himself. And there was a duck in the yard, he took the rifle and he shot the duck... he shot it with a cross and the hole left by the shot remained there... what was I saying, what did we keep talking about... Well, mom had a mug on the stove, it was boiling water and he took the duck and put it in the mug. Well, of course, the water splashed outside, just steam and my mother asked him if that's how it's done and hit him on the back. Well, she told him properly that he then wanted to shoot my mother. And if it wasn't for the fact that... a little bit of cleverness, and again the fact that... he understood Slovak well and could communicate well, he would have told him one thing: "We are not in Hungary now, nor in Romania... we are already in Czechoslovakia, and now if this woman went to complain to the commander, do you know what punishment was given? The punishment was written in such a way that if we harm women... or people in Czechoslovakia, that it will be such a punishment that you will be shot. Come on, think about whether you will continue to behave like this or change your behavior." Well, but somehow after that he arranged it, as he was more intelligent, so mom didn't have to go to the commander or anything, because he arranged it so that he was transferred."

"Well, he was like that... that he was also a frontman. The last ones... he was like a soldier, and he remained a soldier by profession. Well, and she says well come... he came to visit, there was a killer party... but of course, also a big feast, a big feast... And this is how he sees me running around there. And he like this... when it was over and when... and when..."Mom, what do you say about your son?" What did he do... He didn't do anything, but I would tell you one thing that if you put him in a military school. " Wow. Then to the military school... Well, I don't know, let him decide. And I, as a ten-year-old, had to decide whether I would become a soldier or not. But... she brought the application, her parents signed it... as a sister... my parents signed it, I signed it. Well, and then it came to Košice, to the military hospital, for a check-up. For a tour, well. That's how I was at that time, when we went to the theater from school... it was organized in such a way that we went to the state theater. We went to Košice for some shows and so on... and so on. But then my father went with me to Košice, and they were more knowledgeable, they knew Košice too. They knew because they were so down... well. We need to go to that building, to that building... I can read, but what are we going to do there. "Don't worry, just be quiet!" Okay... So we came to the gatehouse, gave the paper and immediately said that you have to go up to that floor, and the number of the door. Well, we came there... there in uniform, but in a white coat. Yes, you are fine, sit down here now. I have some soldiers there. And then I heard, simulant. That... I haven't heard this word before, that's when I heard it for the first time, because they were still sitting... they were sitting on the bench, some of the soldiers like. And everyone, "chr chr chr", grunted worse than I do now, but... and then he comes there, he went outside that you don't have to wait. And these shriveled, but I heard the word for the first time, and I will never forget that it shriveled, it shriveled. So then, I also asked that... I didn't understand the word. And "chr, chr, chr", so they cried because they croaked, right?"