Ján Medviď

"And... I would also ask about such a very early childhood. In addition to the fact that you were probably already in preschool age, you had to help with the household... but, as children, you spent your time in... Time. In that time. At that time... at that time... well, I'm not ashamed! Sometimes I'm surprised that a person survived. Well, it was like that... it was our childhood, it was nice. When I think about it, when you didn't have a radio, when you didn't know anything, we didn't even know how the world works and so on... even in that high school when I started, it wasn't much God knows. So this life then brought… I got that perspective through travel and so on. And then by studying. Well, there you go... but these... well, good job. So I answered that, well, I didn't have time, although I wanted to go to the field with the boys to dig in with them, but I couldn't. I came from school, from the neighboring village... dropped my bag... go with the cows to the field, let's eat some food... go with the cows to the field, come back... sweep, clean the stables, make bedding and so on... when water needs to be brought for the cows and so on . Whatever you like, this must be done, chop the straw, as they say... so... well, chop the grass, mow with a lawnmower, for the cows to have, yes... In autumn or winter and so on... or water when they had to be given, well... so on they were robots. And then when it came... there was still time to eat, and then when it came... it came... homework and candlelight. So... even the housework. That way according to age, but I couldn't, I was a little boy... but I also sometimes went to the field with my mother, which I mentioned, or when the potatoes were being planted. But the mother did not allow such common household chores there, everything had to be done, and only then. Well, but it was already dark, there were no longer conditions for that... And you actually started going to elementary school in the fifty-second year, or do you actually remember that? In fifty-seconds... I mean, I was a freshman. That was one class... that was me in the village in Stročín and one other neighbor, that was our entire year one to five, and then we went to that collective school, that Slovak school in Mestisk, walking there and back, there and back. And actually the first grade, was it a classic folk school? The folk school, where it was divided, one third year, I think... it was preserved that way."

"And... sorry. And do you know exactly what the verdict was? How did they justify it, what was written there, why was he in that prison. It was, it was written. Come on, that... Jesus Maria... Well, wait, he got a terrible... cut-throat paragraph... come on... wait, I'll remember... against, against the republic what is it. That's the hardest part... preparing the layout! Sorry I didn't know... plotting! What is the worst that can be... that's what they gave him. He was also threatened, well. Because he allegedly did not fulfill... that he disrupted the economic plan because of one day he stood with the thresher. After that he is said to be a mechanic and technician... that he didn't know how to repair a part, and that he laughed... because those young soldiers helped then, that was the way it was... when they were struggling, or wanted to hold on... so that then a part he sabotaged that he didn't want to repair and so on... because he was a technician. Because of that... nothing else. And actually... I would also ask, did he ever mention how he survived, whether the interrogators tortured him, or whether he also experienced such practices. Well, well, well... when this first becomes public like this... I got the books and papers... this is what I'm going to tell you now. When he came out of that prison, when I was alone with my mother... all this I saw, after my father was taken away... the consequences, how my mother suffered and all of us, and what about my father. And what's worse, the father has gone mad from the prison! He was mentally finished. He was even still there... because the doctors and my mother were still threatening... We went to see him twice in psychiatry. But when they let him go home, it was the hardest for me, but probably also for my mother... that period! Then… then he got over it, in about two years. He got it. Well, he was processed so much that I remember... I'll finish this and then I'll go back to what you asked about how he was experiencing it. So it was processed that the mother sometimes took the hoe, which I saw with my own eyes... or when she goes to the yard, she took the... as they say, she took the watering can... she had a kettle with her, that she goes with the water... so the father was so processed that he normally grabbed her by the coats...coats we call those women's skirts that were so wide. He grabbed her by the coat and said: "No, don't go anywhere, stay here, don't go to work!" So he was worried... this was the fear. And this question. So it was unpleasant... from all that I saw, the consequences for my mother. But what he went through, what we saw in him... He couldn't sleep. He used to come to us from the front room... he was walking and he was banging his head against the wall, against the doorframe. In the prison where he was allegedly beaten, he was beaten! What did they see, so they say... that there were aprons and electric shocks to the head! "