Pavol Tomašovič

* 1964

  • "I'm definitely in my fourth year, and around November I decided which way I was going. At that time, I weighed roughly 79-80 kilos, 81 at the most, and I thought so. You knew that there is a rule that under 50 kilos they didn't take people away. So I actually started with a hunger strike, I studied Břetislav Kafka. The effect of diet, so I prescribed my own fat-reducing medicine to the best of my ability. i have achieved at the time of final final exams, I think I already weighed 52 kilos when she was a final exams, my jacket was hanging on me, I even then, in that period of 15-20 kilos that I lost, it was enough for me, I had something to do to concentrate on passing the exams. From a certain weight, roughly below 60 kilos, a self-preservation mechanism already started. A person began to concentrate as what will he eat, how to handle it all."

  • "And that's where, of course, the end of my ideal song began. They enjoyed every examination, because they took us "live". The pain was such that if I knew what was waiting for me after each examination, I would... but it was impossible to leave . So one peeked through those painful examinations and there... now I didn't understand what they were enjoying? Well, no one gave you any sedatives. I'll never forget. Was it that you were simulating? Yes, to everyone else too. I'm then, in České Budejovice, there were 8 of us in a room, and in Prague there were 14 of us. The most common simulations were urine in blood, but what happened, those boys often cried in the toilet, because they stuffed them without any of them, stuffed them, and he the boy was crying in the toilet, I was also through the ass, ten times, five gastric lavages, hey, here and there, the tubes, I'll never forget them, once they sent me for an examination, they gave me that tube up to here and made me wait there for 3/4 of an hour. They were watching TV , it gives you everything, even what you don't have, that I can still feel the taste of that rubber tube to this day and I still came to see them and they just wait."

  • "That was the biggest disappointment for me in this whole painful process. That they summoned me but didn't give me a blue, but the biggest suffering for me was the idea that I wouldn't last another year. I already knew that I was already, I was already, because I once fell into a coma there, I passed out like that... They did a good job with you, you wanted the definitive one... Yes, I wanted the definitive one and this was it. And that even with the experience that I I fell there once and actually fell into a coma, and I knew that the self-preservation instinct was stronger, that I couldn't keep it up. I also tried to convince myself that even then, because it would be enough for me, I should have gone formally for a year, it would be enough for me , by the fact that I was there for four months, that they would count them for me and that they would keep me there for two more months. Well, no, the law won't let you go, the soldiers are hollow, so I left disappointed."

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He refused to join the military. He preferred to go on a severe hunger strike

Pavol Tomašovič was born on January 10, 1964 in Trnava to Alojz and Vilma. The totalitarian regime took its toll especially on the father. He showed good results in elementary school and was taken in by the Jesuit order. After Action K, he joined the auxiliary technical battalions, had to do forced labor and had a year of hard work in the uranium mines in Jáchymov. He was able to return to civilian life only in 1957. Despite the ban, Tomáš attended religion classes during elementary school. He studied at the Secondary Industrial School in Trnava between 1979 and 1983. He started attending the Engineering Faculty of the Technical University in 1983, and graduated in 1987. During his university studies, he participated in the events of informal religious groups. in 1986, he started a hunger strike so that he would not have to join the mandatory military service. In 1987, he started working at TAZ Trnava. He left for military service in the same year, but was immediately transferred to the hospital. Several months of hospitalization in several military hospitals followed. Released to civilian life in May 1988, he was only given a reprieve. He was released from compulsory military service only a few months later.