V zemi klokanů proti srpu a kladivu. Protikomunistický exil v Austrálii v první fázi studené války

• Authors: Nekola Martin

Title variants

EN

In the Land of Kangaroos against the hammer and sickle. Anti-communist exile in Australia during the first phase of the Cold War

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Czechoslovak exile in Australia subsequent to February 1948 cannot be investigated without putting it within a wider framework and providing an overview of other national groups from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, or put more simply from behind the Iron Curtain, who also settled in the continent. Over 180 000 people from various countries of origin took it upon themselves to find their fortune on the other side of the world. In the second half of the 1940s, the vast majority of these were political refugees, exiles who refused to live under communist domination or who faced persecution. Not even the distance and a certain isolation in Australia’s international affairs would necessarily offer reliable protection. On the contrary; the Soviet Union saw it as a possible springboard for the further global spread of communism. Exiles were very sensitive to this threat, and there was no way they were going to allow Marxist ideology to penetrate further into Australian society. They founded societies and international organisations with clear anti-communist focus, published printed matter, and held demonstrations and commemorations.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th century; Australia; ABN; ACEN; anti-communism; ASIO; Second World War; emigration; exile; Communist Party of Australia; Labour Party; Liberal Party; Nazism; espionage

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 221-241

Contributors

author

Nekola Martin

• Praha, Czech Republic