Ladislav Ruman

“It was me who proposed and enforced not to found the Public against Violence movement, because I realized that it might have been joined also by people who didn´t pursue democratizing process. At one school meeting that took place in P-2 room there was a discussion about its founding and some members from the Communist Party had been suggested there. That´s when I stood up, said I refused to cooperate with those suggested people and I left. Probably thanks to that gesture I convinced my future colleagues – as are Dr. Ivan Mačura, Ing. Mitterpach, Lacko Tatár, and maybe also others I forgot names of. Later on, together we founded the Non-Party Members Forum and not the Public against Violence movement (VPN), like it was in case of many other universities and organizations. At our school there was up to 40% of party members. That was really a high number for a school organization and I was sure they would prevail in leading of the preparing VPN. That was why I enforced the Non-Party Members Forum and I assume we were truly unique in it.”

“When my colleague, Mr. Kočiš, secretly dropped a hint he could lend me some literature, illegal in the former Czechoslovakia back then, of course, I agreed. However, he warned me I should have kept it in secret. I was already informed and I truly didn´t talk about it with anyone. I will mention just the last book I had borrowed from this sir and I read it over the whole night. It was a German edition of book from Viktor Suvorov – Der Eisbrecher, an Icebreaker in Slovak translation. After reading it, though, I didn´t return it to its owner, as I got some info, unfortunately I don´t know from whom, that I was supposed to deliver it to a person sitting on the prior arranged bench in the park. This person was supposed to address me with a password: 'The sun is not shining today.' By happenstance, the sun shone like crazy that day. Thus I handed the book to a man I never saw before, or afterwards. It was probably a channel from Hungary which made it all work, since I had the book from Mr. Kočiš.”