1948–1989 The town the factory builtMesto, ktoré postavila fabrika

After the communist takeover of 1948 Humenné was rebuilt as an industrial town. A plant for polyamide textile fibres — today's Chemlon — was put up on the edge of it, and it worked exactly as planned: it drew people out of the villages, and blocks of flats went up to hold them. The town grew from roughly 7,000 people in 1948 to more than 33,000 by the 1990s. That is the sharpest change in the whole seven hundred years, and it took one generation. Almost every family here has somebody in it who walked away from a farm and into a factory.Po komunistickom prevrate v roku 1948 prestavali Humenné na priemyselné mesto. Na jeho okraji vyrástol závod na polyamidové textilné vlákna — dnešný Chemlon — a zafungoval presne podľa plánu: vytiahol ľudí z dedín a pre nich vyrástli sídliská. Mesto sa z približne sedemtisíc obyvateľov v roku 1948 rozrástlo na vyše tridsaťtritisíc v deväťdesiatych rokoch. Je to najprudšia zmena za celých sedemsto rokov a odohrala sa počas jednej generácie. Takmer v každej rodine tu je niekto, kto odišiel z gazdovstva rovno do fabriky.