Gabriela Borošová

„Even when I was older, I was about 15 years old, and I always went there on vacation. And I fell in love with a boy. And that's what my mother told me only now, when we talked about it, that my grandfather was terribly unhappy about it because he said that the boy's father was one of the main agitators or promoters of that collectivization. And he says that these were people who basically had nothing and rose to the top precisely because they behaved the way they did .How was it that grandfather was very unhappy that I found a friend like this, hey. So I can't tell you anything about it. And you don't know in which year they entered, or if they resisted the entry for a longer period of time? Um, I don't know, I just know what I already mentioned, that grandma threw herself on the ground with her chest, that they won't take that chest away from her. That they bought it for themselves and now it's like it's being taken away from them. As they experienced the collectivization quite hard. Although then I remember that my grandfather worked at the cooperative until his retirement. He was basically still working there. As they probably got used to after that, there was nothing else left for them. And don't you know, even before they entered there, they also had to take away the contingents? Yes. I know this, that my mother said that they were still going and that they were still increasing the quotas that they had to give. But how much I don't know. As there they had wheat and milk, I remember that milk, hey, also meat. When they killed the pig, they also had to give something from it. So they mentioned this.“

„We had to have an invitation, that was the first thing they gave us. Then we had to have a foreign exchange promise that we had foreign exchange coverage. So our mother-in-law took care of it. I'll say it straight away. It was taken care of in Rožňava. And then we went to Prague a week before I left, I almost fell on my ass, because it was a long line at the Swiss embassy. You had to stand there for two days We needed a transit visa through Austria. My husband went to the Austrian embassy to arrange it. But it was unbelievable I had a very bad experience. When we left, we went through Vienna. It was like a customs office I will never forget it, it was so humiliating. We had to open the suitcases and with a mallet they were throwing all the things in the suitcase at us to see if we had anything in there. Well, I... And that was already 89, but summer, hey, June in 89. So then I felt incredibly humiliated, and then I actually realized that it wasn't right, hey. And then when I saw what was on the other side. We were always taught in school that raging capitalism. So I said that we are making it worse. One probably had to see it to understand it. Well, then we were there for a month. I basically left two small children here, hey, for the test of how to look. Not for the test, for the visit, as they live. And that's when my eyes actually opened.“