Ľudovít Jaššík

“He was called to become a member, in depot there was a very strong organization of the Communist Party of Slovakia. But my father said: ‘I can´t join the agrarians, since they are nothing but farmers, however, I can´t join the Party either, since all of them are former members of the Hlinka Guard!’ Thus he later received the assessment of being a politically less-reliable person. So that´s where all our issues had began. And those depot functionaries were truly former Guard members; I knew them in person very well.”

“The main role was to meet the plan in the pit. Nothing else mattered so much. We didn´t have any training, but twice a week we attended a ‘religious education’. It was a political education, which we used to call religion. That´s where we took naps. The commander that lectured this political training couldn´t even read well, so everyone used to sleeping there. We had to get up at 5 in the mornings and go to the pit. And since 6 a.m. we had to mine.”