Both men were useful to the state that followed, and both were flattened a little in the using. Tajovský's stories of village poverty were read as evidence against the old order and became fixed school reading. Murgaš was rebuilt as a Slovak scientific hero — an amateur radio club was named after him in 1975 — with the priest quietly played down. Meanwhile his birth house and Tajovský's together became a memorial house, run as a branch of the Central Slovakia Museum in Banská Bystrica, with rooms given to each man. The village itself became what it still is: a place people live in and drive to work from.Obaja muži sa štátu, ktorý prišiel, hodili — a obaja pritom trochu sploštili. Tajovského poviedky o dedinskej biede sa čítali ako svedectvo proti starým pomerom a stali sa pevnou súčasťou školského čítania. Z Murgaša urobili slovenského vedeckého hrdinu — v roku 1975 po ňom pomenovali rádioklub — a kňaza pritom potichu odsunuli bokom. Z jeho rodného domu a z domu Tajovského sa medzitým stal pamätný dom, pobočka Stredoslovenského múzea v Banskej Bystrici, s izbou pre každého z nich. A samotná obec sa stala tým, čím je dodnes: miestom, kde sa býva a odkiaľ sa dochádza do práce.