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EMERGENCY SECURITY MEASURES IN SLOVAKIA, 1969-1989

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Púčik M.

Vojenská história

2020

vol. 24

issue 1

136 - 155

The study addresses the so far poorly elaborated issue of repressive measures of the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia that were used to eliminate any form of resistance. These measures included the use of the so-called soft and the so-called hard power. The study focuses mainly on the specifics in Slovak conditions. Based on extensive archival research the study addresses the issue of abuse of the army against the so-called internal enemy, for example, the so-called hockey events and the 1st anniversary of the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Based on the experiences of deployment of repressive forces, a central MBO plan was developed. After almost twenty years of the so-called normalization, the “Husák-Jakeš” totalitarian system found itself in late of the 1980s in agony. The disintegration of the power system continued, but plans for extreme security measures elaborated and approved in the early 1970s remained valid. Deployed numbers of soldiers and military equipment within the territory of Slovakia were a proof that a significant military force was prepared for power intervention in order to eliminate components of society that the governmental regime described as a security threat. Creating an ideological image of the so-called inner enemy, alternatively prepared MBO plans in several stages and other measures of the central power showed that despite the long so-called normalization period, the “Husák-Jakeš” system did not seem well established. On the contrary, the system was afraid of any forms of confrontation with the public.

ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ REFLEXE V MYŠLENÍ O VÁLCE OD „SRPNA 68“ PO VSTUP DO NATO

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Polnar S., Prokop B.

Vojenská história

2020

vol. 24

issue 2

116 - 138

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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EMERGENCY SECURITY MEASURES IN SLOVAKIA, 1969-1989

ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ REFLEXE V MYŠLENÍ O VÁLCE OD „SRPNA 68“ PO VSTUP DO NATO