Dionýz Kurča

“The PTP was a stupidity of sick minds. It was […] completely unnecessary to establish the PTP. We weren't like that. Was it necessary to have so many political prisoners in this country? What for? There were 90% of just innocent people. They fabricated things about them as they needed to threaten and intimidate people, to evoke fear. They needed political prisoners and people realized that they did nothing wrong, but were enemies of Socialism, thus they speculated. How many people did they evict?! Only because they wanted others to be afraid. This was the same with PTP.”

“One guy hinted he wanted me to also attend the officer training school. It was preferred if someone applied there after graduation, although they accepted others as well. It wasn't supposed to happen. If I only had thought about it back then, I could have rejected it as if not being interested. Maybe I would have stayed in the army. However, our personal evaluations came yet after being drafted. Those, who went to school, needed to hand the evaluations in. I probably had a bad personal evaluation record, as it was listed there I belonged to the group of children of businessmen, of factory owners, among children of those who have relatives abroad, and so on. There were 8 or 9 groups, so accordingly, I am sure that any person could have ended up in the PTP.”