Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Socialism with a human face.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.