Ladislav Broďáni

"In order to keep the promises we made to ourselves as young people, that we would preserve the traditions of our fathers and mothers for the younger generations, we dusted off all the dances that were danced in those years and were very successful. We fine-tuned the music, of course it all had to be with slight variations because everybody was twenty-five to thirty years older than when they were danced originally, but also some twenty-five to thirty kilograms heavier. So they couldn't perform those dances in the same rhythm as in the past. But all the true essence remained."

"It was better in that I knew then that at six o'clock, when the siren blew here, that I had to be at work. It blew at fourteen o'clock and I knew that we could go home and that I was free until six o'clock the next day when I would go again. I knew that I would be paid on the 4th of each month, I knew that I would be backed up on the 20th of each month. I knew exactly the amount of funds. I was able to plan when I could use it, where I could use it, and so on. When we turn it around to now - you come to work in the morning and they send you home because they don't have a job for you."