Dagmar Viestová

"So she was actually the head or rather the neck, but also symbolically it is interesting that when they were talking about what the group should be called, it was this Elo Šándor, whose works were the model for the series, and now it came to me, interesting, Sváko Ragan, and he says: 'Why would they be spiritualizing here, the founder is her, her name is Kvetoslava, in Latin Flóra.' So in the end they ended up like that, with Flóra. Their activities were diverse. First of all, they helped the families of people who ended up at the ÚŠB or later in the Gestapo, financially, they gave them food, clothing, simply, they took care of those families. And they helped, even if someone was released from prison beaten and so on, they helped those people get away."

"As they lined up when the plane landed, they wanted my father to greet him as a relative, and he said: 'No, I have to be at the back.' That simply goes against General Viest's vision that it wouldn't be good. And indeed, as he was greeting, and he came to the end of the line and my father was there, he looked at him, my father announced his rank, they shook hands and everyone went into some building and the others looked, wondering what was going on, they were expecting a stormy welcome, but when they got to that building and were alone in the office, General Viest hugged and kissed his nephew, who he told him that he often thought of and so on, and it was something simple, my father remembered it, practically until his death."

"In retrospect, she came there, I thought she was a witch, because, well, she looked horrible, and when she came, I remember that she went next door to the kitchen, because I was pushing her away and crying there. And she told me that I was your mother and I shouted no, that I have a mother and that is a different mother."

"Crowds went there, we were even on Austrian television, they came, but there were also those who came to eat before us, but many brought us hot tea with honey to make us endure it. I also wrote a poem about Palach and that program was very popular, Modrá vlna, and I even recited it there and the poem then hung on, the text hung on many of these universities here in Bratislava."