Ladislav Ruman

“When my colleague, Mr. Kočiš, secretly dropped a hint he could lend me some literature, illegal in the former Czechoslovakia back then, of course, I agreed. However, he warned me I should have kept it in secret. I was already informed and I truly didn´t talk about it with anyone. I will mention just the last book I had borrowed from this sir and I read it over the whole night. It was a German edition of book from Viktor Suvorov – Der Eisbrecher, an Icebreaker in Slovak translation. After reading it, though, I didn´t return it to its owner, as I got some info, unfortunately I don´t know from whom, that I was supposed to deliver it to a person sitting on the prior arranged bench in the park. This person was supposed to address me with a password: 'The sun is not shining today.' By happenstance, the sun shone like crazy that day. Thus I handed the book to a man I never saw before, or afterwards. It was probably a channel from Hungary which made it all work, since I had the book from Mr. Kočiš.”

“From my point of view I would like to mention one more thing. When it was already decided about the collapse of the old structures and victory of the democratizing process, we often used to discuss with students, whether we wouldn´t be accused of attempting to gain some posts. Therefore we unanimously agreed that no one would accept any of the vacant functions. It was quite logical for me, because I was more of an observer of the political events than its active participant. However, unfortunately, later on I had to break this promise.”