Dionýz Kurča

“One guy hinted he wanted me to also attend the officer training school. It was preferred if someone applied there after graduation, although they accepted others as well. It wasn't supposed to happen. If I only had thought about it back then, I could have rejected it as if not being interested. Maybe I would have stayed in the army. However, our personal evaluations came yet after being drafted. Those, who went to school, needed to hand the evaluations in. I probably had a bad personal evaluation record, as it was listed there I belonged to the group of children of businessmen, of factory owners, among children of those who have relatives abroad, and so on. There were 8 or 9 groups, so accordingly, I am sure that any person could have ended up in the PTP.”

“And then we had a line up there and a Captain Žížala welcomed us. It was a former soldier of Svoboda's Army. I will mention something more to this later, but now I want to say, he had the welcoming speech. Well, he simply didn't treat us as people. He was so vulgar that his speech was just full of swearing. He called us various names; for him we were people who didn’t want to work, gougers, spies, Vatican enemies of the Soviet Union, of the working class! He threatened they would show us what the working class was about, that they would teach us to work. Each word expressed we were enemies.”