Filip Paulech

“During the winter, when we were going to work, I got tonsillitis. I had high fever. In the barracks there was a doctor, so I went to see him. I got a paper from him stating I had to stay in bed as I had fever. So I walked from Plavecký Mikuláš back to show it to my commander. Then I lay down. There were about six or seven of us having fever in the room. We didn't come to work the next day, since we had it confirmed from the doctor. The commander came to our room and began yelling: 'You darn rogues; get out of here right away! Get down from your beds and start the fatigue duty!' It meant cleaning the halls, toilets, sweeping the courtyard, etc. While having the fever. So this was how they accepted if someone was ill. From those times I have chronic throat inflammation lasting my whole life. That's where it began.”

“The communists took over and those, who were founding the communist party in Moravany, those were the worst possible jerks of the world. For example, one was a goat shepherd and his name was Konečný. He had more children and lived quite immorally. He had a child with his own daughter and so on. Back then, I was already a youngster and there were elections of members into the local national committee. It was a public meeting. I heard that they were going to appoint even the shepherd Konečný to be the member, so I spoke out he was a thief robbing granaries, being imprisoned several times. I just asked how the village can be represented by a man who cannot maintain his own household. When I began grouching, others continued. Then after the meeting, a party's secretary stopped me and said: 'You just wait! We shall remember when you stood up against us!' I asked whom I stood against and he replied that against the party, thus they shall have remembered me. So they remembered when writing an evaluation report on me, on a faithful man going to church. That this way I was just making fun of the communist party and the like. So I received such a bad personal report from the village, according to which I then had to enlist in the Auxiliary Technical Battalion.”