Milan Kužela

“Originally, my father was a partisan and he was wounded during the war, too. After the war he joined the Party, but he was a member only for about three months, because once he stated that they preach water, but drink wine. I think, I have this trait after my father. I didn’t see any sense in such membership, although the members were better, they could have done whatever they wanted. Many used to steal at the trips and they were pardoned everything. Moreover, I was even excluded from the pioneership. I remember we had some celebration and before that we played soccer in the school yard. My teacher told me I had dirty shoes. Since I didn’t have any napkin, I took down my pioneer scarf, I cleaned my shoes, and tied it back on my neck. It resulted in worsened mark from behavior due to dishonoring the pioneer scarf.”

“We had some co-players, whom I called to be ŠtB members, since they informed on us. We had some superiors, so they informed them – the coach or the boss, and together they went hand in hand. It was really dangerous to speak about anything in front of anybody. Although, we knew, which ones did so. We even used to tease them by saying a nonsense on purpose. But sometimes, even the nonsense hurts. We used to say that the informer bought it with a triple hook, however, it always stained us in some way. Then, if we needed to arrange something, it turned out impossible.”