Eva Landlová

"In the 1950s, my father was imprisoned. Those were the processes that were fabricated. And actually came to our place for lunch in the 1950s or the end of the 1940s, in the 1950s, a soldier who was enlisted with his father and two other guys and asked my father if he knew the way across the border, how could it be run over. And my father says, and it's so common in a conversation, and my father says: 'That, I have no idea how I would know that. I have three daughters who are figure skaters, and I don't even dream of running away.' And they left and the next day they came for the father, they took him, and the father still said: 'Don't worry, Katka, I'll be back in a moment.' Well, he didn't come back. – "Do you know what was the reason for his detention? - Yes. One of the three, that is, not the friend who went to the pub with his father, but one of the three was a confidant, and they asked him where they had lunch and he said: 'At Dulkov'ás.', I was also at the trial, because they were such Moravians and the trial was in Vsetín, so I went with my mother - when were the trials? - "That was in the early 1950s." - Well, they locked him up, but, well, the trial was sometime in November or I don't know when, and my father said: "But, what, what are you doing with me.", he was a lawyer in the end, "I didn't tell him anything." After all, he had to tell you, the one who said that where they were having lunch, that I had no idea where the road beyond the border was.' you should have reported him.' And my father, I was there, and my father said: 'well, I was never a whistleblower and I never will be.' , where you can cross the border. So, well, the normal fee was two years for that, but as someone who knew the law, he got four. But then they let him go for three. And about four months he somehow came earlier than in four years. Well, they kicked me out of college."

"My dad, he was interested into sports. He was interested in sports and was in - even then, I don't know if he was already a Slovan, but probably yes, in 1940 or when, he was also in such a committee and we - we were three sisters. The three Dulková sisters and my father gave us as soon as the sport of figure skating started in Bratislava, rob - I remember that name, his name was Captain Šturm and he led the whole Slovakia- he taught us. –“So he was such a coach.” – As a coach. Even I was, I don't know, fifteen at the time and he did acrobatics with me and then he taught it to my husband and I did acrobatics with him. My husband and I actually met in this club because my father insisted that we play sports. And all three sisters, as we were, I still had an older sister, Ľudmila, me and Hank, and all three of us regularly went to training sessions. The hall was not yet covered, there was no hall at all, we started "šifbek" to - Do you know what is "šifbek"? Well, it was called the Medical Garden, and there was frost made in the winter, they sprayed, it froze, and he taught us there. At that time it was still compulsory driving, so he taught us the figure eights and twists and turns, and he was just a very good person and he cared a lot and there were a lot of us. And he came from men team, I already started earlier, my husband didn't come until about two or three years after me, I hadn't noticed him yet. And we just met there since I was little, he was sixteen and I was fourteen or whatever, well, we just met with my husband there, and there weren't many guys there then, but there was engineer Emil Skákala, he was then the director of such sports businesses and the winter one, the winter stadium was then built, it was not covered yet, so of course we already trained in the winter stadium. That was in the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, but everything was taken over by the engineer Skákala, he was simply passionate. But then came Divín, the poor boy. If he was Divín today, he will never be world champion. If he was Nepela today, he would never be a world champion, because today everything is paid for - the area is paid for, the coach is paid for, we had everything for free, only about ten crowns an annual membership fee for the club, we were members of the club, and it was very humane sporty. We all had one goal and it was very cool."