Ing. Katarína Šimončičová

We went skiing and there was no snow, so we had nothing to do and we were lying on those beds. Such a small room. We didn't need anything, it was enough that we were together. We talked through the week. But it was such...I recommend everyone to experience similar week with this Ms Vlasta, you can't even imagine it until you experience it. Once she told me, "Listen." I was in Bratislava for a few years, two years, maybe three. She says: "You have nothing to do here in Bratislava, you're bored here!" Well, I went to the cinema, to the theatre, things that weren't in Považská, but nothing more, maybe for walks or I don't know what. And she said: "I know such a group of people who run around Slovakia, they have shingles in their backpacks and sometimes they go and shuffle some wooden house, some granary, some hayloft and so. Do you want me to introduce you to them?"Of course, such people exist? They do it just like that, they don't even leave a ticket-that they've done it there. They finish and move on." Thus I get to know the conservationists and I was at the first meeting, 5.5. at five o'clock , it was the fifth anniversary of the section of protection of folk architecture. It was such an unreal meeting if you knew what a meeting it was like! Normal meeting of the basic organization number 6 every month, the first Thursday of the month. And I was at the place where poor Vlado Bednár recited a poem about Mortimer, it was a former mayor or as they were called at the time back in '82, the leader, chairman of the National Committee Martinák, who had Primate's Square paved, had the linden cut and paved. So Vlado Bednár composed such a derogatory poem for him about Mortimer, then Jano Budaj talked about how the monuments from the Ondrej's Cemetery are being stolen, they are going to be restored. Well, there were so many things together and now that ... tress are supposed to be cut in the Medical garden, and I've immediately shouted: “How! We'll get tied up! I've never heard of people being tied to trees, but somehow it flew out of me. And they said, "Yeah, you're ours!" And that was it. And I went with them. Two days later, I went to the first brigade to the mill in the Kvačianská valley.

Zuza Tatárová said: "Mr Kryl, could you then return to Mozart's house after the concert because Katka can't go out?"It was cold and snowing, and I was guarding the whole house, I watched the concert on the television. And he said he'll come, of course. And as I was watching, suddenly the telephone rang. Who isn't watching Kryl and makes calls? This can't be true, after many years, he's here in Bratislava! And some lady from Trnava calls, she came with her daughter from kindergarten and her husband locked them out, we cannot enter our flat, please, help us. And I asked her whether she knows who is she calling? Yes, you are public against violence and this is violence, so help me. And I said her, excuse me madam, and Kryl there and I couldn't listen to him and she was dealing with that, I told her to contact the police, that I am unable to help her from Bratislava, then she hung up, I didn't know what happened. Ok, I finished watching it. And then Kryl arrived. I had to take a sip of water, it isn't that easy. He sat opposite me, maybe 2 metres, took his guitar and asked what shall I play for you? I can't imagine what is it like, secretly listening to him for twenty- twenty-one years, he was here in 1969, twenty years in secret, and then suddenly he sits in front of you. And I said play me the blind girl, because, and now I have to weep, it isn't just like that. This blind girl was our republic, dazzled, blind, unaware of what's happening around her, closed by barbed wires. So he plays Blind girl for me, and then also Salome. I haven't realised what had happened. Because before that, when they told you, they would abolish the 4th article of the constitution, ok, they abolished it, but you don't perceive it on yourself. But when suddenly, a human sits close and sings what you wish for you, it was the most beautiful thing that could have happened to me in that period. Only later, when my son was born it was more... but before that, only Kryl. Young girls sat there, who were helping us, Zuza Fialova and others, there were asking why am I crying (laughs), I said, shut up, maybe you'll know one day, what does it mean, but I know why I am crying."