Ing. Peter Kubička

In the end, as I mentioned Slánský and these books, it started the opposite effect in me over time. It started in high school. I don't know why it turned out. I began to feel very strong opposition to socialism. Whatever I heard in connection with socialism, I began to have the opposite effect. At university, I even managed to avoid SZM. I know that a man who was the chairman of the SZM came to see me. He came to see me again and again. They have all moved to SZM. I always said I had a lectures or some activity. In the end, I succeeded. The revolution came and he gave me peace of mind.

I remember that it was very intensively decided at the time that which families would take what extra, what could be sold in Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, and get some money for which something else could be bought and brought. You take it this, you take it that. There you can sell an inflatable or some other scarce goods at that time in Yugoslavia. It brought from here and it was sold there. I remember this, my mother's colleagues dealt with who would take what, how it would be transferred, and what would be written in that statement. We had something that wasn't listed there, just so it could be sold. I know my mom warned us at the time not to deal with it. If they asked us, we wouldn't know.

Mom got an apartment. The first way from the bus station, where a bus brought us from our grandmother from Vrábľov, was to Dúbravka. The world ended behind Patronka at that time. Then we went through some fields, some narrow paths and came to some terribly built habitation. At that time, the building of Dubravka began. When I started school as a freshman, it was a newly opened school. I remember it was decorated with the red stars and things. That remained very strongly in my memory. I remember we had the Room of Revolutionary Traditions there. I will never forget that. We were obliged to go there to watch maybe every month. We already knew every flag, every description, every photo, but it still had some strange flavor, because this time of liberation was strongly demonized.

In 1982, when Brežnevv died, we were freshmen in high school. Our school was relatively well equipped. It was an electrical engineering high school. They had TVs in every class. There was an indoor TV circuit and etc. When he died, the all-day program was to follow Brežnev's funeral. It did well that we were watching all day. And that's where it started. We had to watch all day. Interestingly, the teachers refused. They disappeared somewhere, or did their work not to watch. That pomp, ridiculousness and sophistication. It felt like a circus to me because it didn't connect with our history. Then another functionary died in a year, and I remember i saying they could die regularly after a year because we always had a day off. Because we had to watch TV broadcasts of these funerals all day long.

What I remember very much was the agitation. What has never been the case before. Posters of individual political parties and what everyone actually promised. How it all changes fast. I remember discussions with my uncle, who was also in the Communist Party and worked in the East part of Slovakia, where he convinced me that even if something it changed, it would take a long time. I didn't want to believe it. After all, those people from those posters know what they're saying. I was convinced that within half a year, a maximum of a year and everything would change. The man from that agitation got the feeling that those people probably knew what they were doing. Even at those round tables. Those people were talking about something that good sense for the most part. Today we would have distinguished it, at that time we could not compare it. We thought it would be great. The election will be voted and they are going to a happy future, as the Communists promised us.