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Neither my wife nor I were members of any political party. I may have even needed to join the party [15] due to my career, but it would have been a problem. Due to my “bourgeois” origins. During the first half of the 1950s we lived in fear [16]. You never knew what was going to happen to you. I had the stigma of being from a family of kulaks, and was never sure if someone wouldn’t come and take me away somewhere. It depended on the favor and disfavor of the rulers that were here at that time. We have friends that they moved out of Nitra. They were Jews. They moved them to Levice, and even further, out to some villages.
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Slovakia
Interview
Bedrich Hecht