Viliam Žingor, born at Bystrička just outside Martin, organised the partisan movement in the Turiec and from 25 August 1944 commanded the Slovak detachment of the M. R. Štefánik brigade. After the war he criticised the Communist Party; he was hunted, arrested in November 1949, tried in 1950 on fabricated charges of anti-state activity and hanged in Bratislava on 18 December 1950. He was rehabilitated in 1968, and not completely — the normalisation that followed the Soviet invasion cut the process short. The record about him is not one-sided either: historians hold him co-responsible for the partisan killings around Sklabiňa in 1944, and a student is allowed to hold both those facts at once.Viliam Žingor, rodák z Bystričky kúsok od Martina, organizoval partizánske hnutie v Turci a od 25. augusta 1944 velil slovenskému oddielu brigády M. R. Štefánika. Po vojne kritizoval komunistickú stranu; prenasledovali ho, v novembri 1949 ho zatkli, v roku 1950 odsúdili na základe vykonštruovaného obvinenia z protištátnej činnosti a 18. decembra 1950 v Bratislave obesili. Rehabilitovali ho v roku 1968, a nie úplne — proces prerušila normalizácia po sovietskej okupácii. Ani jeho obraz nie je jednostranný: historici ho pokladajú za spoluzodpovedného za partizánske vraždy v okolí Sklabine v roku 1944 a obidva tieto fakty treba uniesť naraz.
