RNDr. Pavol Bakoš

„Conservationists were interested in improving the environment, so we were having some discussions, and for me as a biologist, totality represented monoculture. Monoculture is a field with grain. It can be sustainable, only when energy is supplied to it- using fertilizers and means to diminish pests. It is energetically demanding. Democracy is a meadow. It is a very rough parallel and analogy, but that’s the way it is. Democracy is a mixed forest; monoculture is spruce totality. Spruce is growing, growing and when it is infested by bark beetles, it is sprayed with pesticides, but then spruce won't be cut down exactly in this time, whole parts of the forest could collapse. The wind will come, sooner or later...“

„Zemberovce was an interesting village in a sense, in those times, in connection with Gustav Husak. His wife, Magda Lokvencova, was an actress, also a director, she worked in theatre and her colleague Emilia Hylova was from Zemberovce. Emilia’s father was the main road constructor, she was from a respected family, so they were coming there for summer. Local intellectuals, the so-called elite of the village, the priest and the attorney's clerk, gathered at my grandfather’s house. After the Vienna Arbitration, they had to leave Levice, where they owned some property. This farm was owned by the nephew of Marina Pislova, who leased it to them. They were living in a manor-house, it no longer stands, because one communist functionary had it demolished and built a new house there. They used to gather there, and my father told me that Gusto (Husak) was only interested in power, and nothing else. “