NA MARGO MENOVANIA GENERÁLA VIESTA ZA VELITEĽA POVSTALECKEJ ARMÁDY NA SLOVENSKU (I. ČASŤ)

• Authors: Baka Igor

Title variants

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On the appointment of gen. Viest as the commander of the insurgent army in Slovakia (Part I.)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Div. gen. Rudolf Viest belonged to the central personalities of SNU. In spite of that, his mission and activity as the commander of the insurgent army were not processed comprehensively to this day. There are still many questions about his appointment into this function as well as his arrival to the insurgent territory. Until this day, the question why was his arrival delayed until the 7th October 1944 provokes speculations. This is in spite of the fact that the insurgent command urged him basically since the beginning of September. The military historians did not even deal sufficiently with the systematic denigration of Vies’ position by the pre-1989 Marxist historiography. In his contribution, the author tried to sum up the knowledge about the issue in question and explain all the relevant causes and context of the appointment of gen. Viest the commander of the insurgent army as well as the questions related to the delay of his arrival to the insurgent territory.

Keywords

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MILITARY HISTORY; SLOVAKIA; WORLD WAR II; VIEST RUDOLF; COMMANDER OF THE INSURGENT ARMY; SLOVAK NATIONAL UPRISING

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 38 - 57

Contributors

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Baka Igor

• Vojenský historický ústav, Krajná 27, 821 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic