“I had expectations that there would be that change, but I did not have such expectations ... that there would be such a dirty trick as is happening now.”
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Ľubomír Miklo was born on January 30, 1948 in the picturesque village of Polom, as an only child. His father Michal came from the same village, but his mother Judita, unmarried Vaľová, grew up nearby, in the village of Poproč. In his youth, Michal mainly devoted himself to agriculture and, like every other young man at that time, also to mining. He came from three children, while his mother had a lot to do as his father left them very early. In time, Ľubomír’s father became the head of the mine, and after an insidious illness, he settled down in an official chair. Judita grew up in a larger family, as she had five other siblings. Her father was a cable car operator and her mother, a housewife. As a young girl, she took a sewing course and later worked as a helper in the school kitchen. During the Second World War, Ľubomír’s father Michal was part of the local partisans and actively participated in the Slovak National Uprising. At first he was very active, he even found himself in direct combat in the area of Rimavská Sobota, but later he fell ill with pneumonia, so he retreated to the rear. At that time, Judita clearly belonged to the so-called 255, as she contributed by bringing food to the partisans’ hiding places. Ľubomír moved several times during his childhood, because of his father’s job as a miner. They lived in Drnava, Štítnik, Ochtina, but also in Slavošovce. He finished elementary folk school in 1963 in Slavošovce. In the meantime, his father fell ill, which meant the end of working in the mine and settling down in an official position. It also meant another move, this time in August 1963, to Jelšava. In the same year, he started attending the Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering in Košice. After graduating from high school, he aspired to become a sports editor, but due to not being accepted into journalism, he decided on mandatory military service. He enlisted in Havlíčkov Brod among the infantrymen who were in charge of the light machine gun. Due to health problems, Ľubomír was not satisfied with the placement, so he was later transferred among the tankers in Jihlava. He graduated from 1967 to 1969, while also surviving the invasion of foreign troops in August 1968. At the end of his military service, Ľubomír completed an interview at the University of Economics in Žilina, railway transport economics. In 1969, Ľubomír entered the university in Žilina, where he lasted only two years. As he believes today that at that time he was probably more interested in love than studies, in September 1971 he married his sweetheart, Mária. Mária came from Orava and he met her during his studies in Žilina. They lived in Jelšava for two years, and when they got an apartment in Revúca in 1973, they moved there. The family grew and two daughters, Ľubomíra and Mária, were born there. He became an employee of a state-owned company, which dealt with the projection of Slovak magnesite plants, while working at a detached workplace in Lubeník, at the Slovak, magnesite and company directorate. He worked there for many years, until December 31, 1992. Later he became a self-employed person and officially retired in 2008. In the revolutionary 1989, he founded the VPN and was part of the committee. Ľubomír began to devote himself more seriously to municipal politics only after the revolution, while he has been working as the chief controller of Jelšava for 16 years. Currently, he wanted to end his work, mainly because of his increasing age, but since he was still asked to help, he is still dedicated to this work.
