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Vojenská história
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2020
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vol. 24
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issue 3
115 - 124
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In the introduction of the edited document, the author points out to the fact that the so called “nationality key” in forming the CZ command corps after the end of World War 2. emerged from the so called National Personal Structure Model, determining the national proportions for staffing at all command and management levels. Since the state-forming nations were dominating the command corps of the Czechoslovak People’s Army, the nationality key referred exclusively to the Czech and Slovak element. Elaboration of the nationality key should have become an army-wide matter, with all the units of the Ministry of National Defence and General Staff engaged. This should have concerned all service categories and should have been applied to all areas of the army personal work, i.e. to recruitment into the command corps, appointing soldiers for ranks, their promotions and appointments. However, a lot of complications were encountered from the beginning. Particularly in the case of officers, the problem appeared to be most complicated. Their number and method of classification was determined strictly by the so called “systemization” of the service positions approved by the government still according to the regulations of the 24th June 1926. Moreover, the whole area was determined also by the insufficiently clarified bonds and competences of individual ministerial units. The personnel work with the command corps was fragmented. The published archival document comes from the Military Historical Archive Prague.
Vojenská história
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2023
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vol. 27
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issue 4
34 - 66
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Based on extensive archival research, the author continues to explore the issue of so-called normalisation in the military environment. It points to the specific ways whereby this process differed from social developments. The aim of the so-called normalisation was to make the army once again a loyal and stabilising pillar of the neo-conservative regime. In addition to the so-called healthy core of military normalisers, a prominent role in the security forces was played by the military counter-intelligence. It permanently exerted pressure to increase the speed of the purges. At the same time, the new party power centre lead by G. Husák was kept in fear of the so-called internal enemy.
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The essay comments on the messing of Czechoslovak legionaries in Russia between 1918 and 1920 from several points of view. Except for outlining the mechanism of supplies, space is given to the legionaries' attitudes to the mess. It shows the elaborate complex of gastronomic experience, which the volunteers acquired in Russia and on their way home at world seas and oceans. The most important resources come from diaries, contemporary documents and from legionaries' own autobiographies.
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The essay introduces a document written by the Czechoslovak army counter-intelligence. It concerns the poor condition of Czechoslovak-Polish relations in spring 1946 and criticises the conduct of particular Czechoslovak policymakers. It draws attention to the goodwill of Polish high political circles to reach agreement with Czechoslovakia. Enclosed, there is a document compiled by the Office of the Prime, which argues with the conclusions of the counter-intelligence. The two documents pose not only an important source of information on the condition of Czechoslovak-Polish relations, but also reflect the growing intensity of interior political hassle in contemporary Czechoslovakia. The essay is appended with an introductory study commenting on Czechoslovak-Polish relations in 1946.
Vojenská história
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 2
143 - 157
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The author returns to the question of what function did the lieutenant colonel of the General Staff, Ferdinand Čatloš, hold during the mobilisation in the fall of 1938, before becoming the military representative at the Slovak autonomous government. There are two different opinions. According to the first one, he was the Chief of Staff of the Border Area 37, defending the state border fortification, and according to the second one, he was the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division created during mobilisation as a new one. The author has been dealing with the question of Ferdinand Čatloš’ allocation since 1997. Originally he believed that he was the Chief of Staff of the Border Area 37. However later on he discovered documents, proving that Čatloš was in fact the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division. These documents include mainly the personal files of officers of the Border Area 37 and the 8th division.
Vojenská história
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2021
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vol. 25
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issue 3
55 - 87
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In the study, the author analyses the legal status development of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia in 1918; the international law context of their activities in this period. Status of the legions is characterised using the legal terms and terminology, such as: “armed neutrality” of the Czechoslovak military corps, i.e. The Legions (March to May 1918); and “armed conflict”. Four variants and factors possibly leading and contributing to the origin and escalation of the armed conflict of the Czechoslovak Legions with the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1918 - 1920 are described.
Vojenská história
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2023
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vol. 27
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issue 2
98 - 110
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The historical personality of M. R. Štefánik as a scientist, officer, diplomat and founder of Czechoslovakia has already been presented and analysed in countless studies based on standard archival and documentary sources. The authors of the study have chosen an inquiry approach based on: a/ documentary sources of information less considered under-appreciated so far; b/ more rigorous comparative and confrontational analysis of accounts in relation to Štefánik by his contemporaries; c/ new perspectives even regarding the hitherto long-established and seemingly verified understandings of Štefánik and his historical significance.
Vojenská história
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2016
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vol. 20
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issue 3
48 - 73
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In the study, the author deals with the issue of origins, from which the Slovaks – members of the Czechoslovak army in the Soviet Union in 1942 – 1944 came from. Majority of the sources in processing the topic comprised the archival documents from the funds of the Military Central Archive in Prague, Military Historical Archive in Bratislava and Russian State Military Archive (RGVA) in Moscow. Based on the analysis thereof, the author declares that the most significant area, from which Slovaks as volunteers were arriving to this Army in the reporting period were the prisoners of the Slovak and Hungarian Army deployed on the Eastern frontline.
Vojenská história
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2023
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vol. 27
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issue 3
75 - 98
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Material provision of professional officers and warrant officers was one of the important elements of their on-duty and off-duty life. Service benefits were graded according to military rank, status group, and degree of military and civilian education. They were intended for providing decent housing, procuring the basic life necessities and food, spending a pleasant leave to recuperate, and last but not least, claiming various types of service uniforms. The basis for the payment of service benefits can be found in the practice of the former Czechoslovak Army, where the conditions of entitlement to service salary and other additional allowances were contained in the Czechoslovak service regulation Sm 100 and instead of Czechoslovak crowns, Slovak crowns were quoted at a ratio of 1:1. On the example of individual life situations, the author illustrates how the military administration was able to take care of professional officers and warrant officers, how it financially secured their social status and family background in 1939/1940.
Vojenská história
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2020
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vol. 24
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issue 2
116 - 138
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The presented study is dedicated to the long period from August 1968 to March 1999. It is therefore defined by the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops and the accession of the Czech Republic to the North Atlantic Alliance. The text describes the development of Czechoslovak and Czech military-political, doctrinal and strategic thinking during this period. This specific area is described against the backdrop of international politics of the Cold War era, understanding the Czechoslovak state largely as an unjustified object of superpower policy. Despite that, the independent domestic military thinking did not disappear in this period either. This has also continued under the post-1989 conditions, although the journey of the Czech Republic to NATO has been artificially deprived of any real alternatives. The text, however, does not criticize cheaply, but tries to support the arguments by analysing a wide range of professional literature, including the sources in foreign languages. It is also based on the documents of the Prague National Archive, the Military Historical Archive Prague and the Military Historical Archive Bratislava.
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This study characterises circumstances of annexation of northern Orava villages Suchá Hora and Hladovka to Poland in 1938. The inhabitants of the annexed area opposed their joining to Poland. The author follows the aspects of different point of view from Slovak and Polish sides in goral identity. The author shows problems which occurred during delimitation and the military conflict between Polish and Czech-Slovak army.
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