Martin Krajčovič

“The Civic Forum was founded in Prague and for a long time we in Banská Bystrica didn´t understand, why Bratislava wanted to detach and found a new movement called Public Against Violence (VPN). For long we functioned under the head of Civic Forum, but at the same time we easily cooperated with Bratislava´s VPN.”

“In the beginning of November somebody rang the door bell exactly on day, when I overslept and missed my English class. I looked through the peep hole and there were two men standing outside. They were familiar to me from somewhere, so I opened the door. They happened to be from a military counter-intelligence service and allegedly, probably yet from times of my compulsory service, someone pressed charges against me for listening the Radio Free Europe. But back then, when the young ‘buddy’ told on us, we listened mostly to music. Resulting from that I had great problems also at school, because they found out I was missing at my classes. Even though it had no further consequences, this was enough to have made my life much more unpleasant.”