Olga Mastníková

"First of all, I felt it already that the father was not there, because it changed the whole functioning of the family. Suddenly, my brother was taken to my grandmother's house so that my mother could take care of it all; she had to go to work. I know I missed him terribly, that it was such a sudden sadness. They told us dad was on a business trip. Well, however, even in the first grade, when I was going, my dad was locked up. And then the teacher especially in the third grade, she acted just like the Gestapo. Well, she treated me terribly, I do not have any good memories of attenting elementary school at all."

"The communists locked him up after the war for all the ´honours´ he achieved during the liberation, because he actually went from Russia with Freedom - he went with the whole army through Dukla and the Slovak National Uprising, and I think they experienced hell there. And then, because he didn't want to join the party, they locked him up, and since they couldn't always find a cause, a reason, somehow to catch him redhanded, they slipped an anti-state poem into his jacket, then they searched there and locked him up based on that."