Martin Hagara

“Then he had a meeting here in Prievidza [Vladimír Mečiar, note. ed.]. I couldn't miss it. I know how the studies used to be completed back in the past. You know, Mečiar studied law during the normalization era. And the law was under the management of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. It was completely impossible to get to the Faculty of Law, if a person or his relatives had even the smallest possible scratch. He was a dismissed party member suddenly studying the law externally? And he even said it was secret? Is that possible to do external studies in secret? No, that is bullshit.” “So you didn't trust the well-known file named 'Doctor', that he didn't inform?” “Exactly, he was an informer. They came to me as well and offered me that I could complete my study. So he also had to do something to deserve to be there. And at that meeting I raised my hand and said: 'Mr. Mečiar, I would really be interested, how were you, a dismissed party member, allowed to study at the Faculty of Law. Because I was also dismissed and also being lured by the State Security to sign cooperation. So how was it with you?' And that was the time when his security guards led me out from the meeting. You ŠtB bastard!”

“Then on the Day after Christmas, on December 26, 1950, they took us from Nováky to Prievidza. There we were picked up by State Security members, who drove us to Nitra. There we were investigated. I didn't have permission for walks. We had night interrogations. Spent time in corrections. I was at the cell number 23 and the 24 was the correction. It was a cell without windows, without bed or blanked, just the concrete. The interrogations were led every day. Sometimes the interrogation took even 24 hours. No food, no sleep, nothing. There I stood until I fainted.”