Michal Šustek

“It was mentioned at the court, that I got a revolver 6.35, although they found nothing in my house. I told them it was hidden in the soil in our garden. They dug through our whole garden, but I truly had nothing there. My father said they dug through the whole garden. That´s how much they wanted to find that gun. But at the court, the judge quite explicitly said that I acquired a revolver of calibre 6.35 with the intention of shooting the Chair of the party in Beňadik. My defence lawyer replied to this with a smile and said: ‛How could he get a revolver 6.35, when he could only scare sparrows off the roof with it, and not to kill a man!᾽”

“Citizens used to go there and guard every day yet before they began to take them. But in that time they had to know about it because Petrovič said to people to go home, to let it all be as it didn´t have a meaning to evoke any conflicts. And really, also according to the elaborated records there were two hundred state security members, including the soldiers, police, and militia. The village men didn´t want to let the priests be dragged away, so they used to go and guard them, but what could they do more? Those had automats, machine guns, rifles, and the like. And the people had only shovels, scythes, as Hussites back in times. You wouldn´t even believe what the people were willing to do. However, director of Salesians, Petrovič, kept a cool head and forestalled the bloodshed.”