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Osobnost Osvalda Závodského (1910–1954) s důrazem na jeho účast v občanské válce ve Španělsku

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Majtenyi D.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2016

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vol. 24

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issue 2

183-220

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The present study focuses on the personage of Osvald Závodský, an important representative of the security apparatus of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and later also an employee of the Ministry of the Interior. Závodský took active part in the communist assumption of power in February 1948, and continued his engagement in the fight against so called internal enemy afterwards. The peak of the political power he attained when he was appointed the Director of the State Security in 1950. However, several months later, he experienced a great downfall as a victim of political processes which started to take place in Czechoslovakia at that time. He was condemned to death and executed in March 1954. In this context, the study asks whether Závodský was one of the initial instigators of the political trials of the 1950s, or merely a victim of one of them. Yet, almost unknown chapters of his life represented his previous participation in the Spanish Civil War in the years 1936–1939, and subsequently in the resistance movement during the Second World War. Therefore, this study also focuses on the organizational background of our volunteers’ departures to Spain, and, on the basis of archival research, it offers a fresh perspective on this interesting, yet ambiguous figure of the newly emerging communist power in Czechoslovakia at that time.

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Ladislav Holdoš : interbrigadista ze Španělska jako "buržoazní nacionalista" v procesu s Gustávem Husákem

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Majtenyi D.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2018

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vol. 26

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issue 2

165-207

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This study, written on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the independent state of Czechs and Slovaks, focuses on personal data of Ladislav Holdoš. The native Slovak and a confident communist since his youth ranked a mere corporal in the Czechoslovak Army, however during his activity in the International Brigades in Spain he became the second commander of the Anti-aircraft Battery “Klement Gottwald” in the rank of captain. When the Second World War broke out he became a member of the MOI partisan group, operating within the French Resistance Movement. He was arrested and the rest of the wartime he spent in the concentration camp in Buchenwald. After 1945 Ladislav Holdoš was an important representative of the Slovak and Czechoslovak Communist Party and at the same time one of the first victims of the political trials in the 1950s. Later he was rehabilitated and worked as a researcher in the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In the late 1960s he was appointed an ambassador in Cuba. During the normalization he was expelled from the party.

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Od interbrigadisty k palubnímu střelci 311. perutě RAF : rotný Rudolf Bolfík (1913-1941)

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Majtenyi D.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2017

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vol. 25

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issue 2

105-122

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The study is concerned with a biography of Rudolf Bolfík, former Czechoslovak air force engineer and gandarme cadet. Bolfík deserted from the gandarme school and attempted to leave for civil-war torn Spain. He succeeded at his third attempt and reached Spain in 1938, enlisting in the battalion Divisionario. After the breakdown of the Spanish front and a short term internation in France he enlisted with the Czechoslovak army in exile in France, was evacuated to Britain from collapsing France, and joined the RAF Squadron no. 311, as a gunner. Bolfík died on return from his fourth sortie when his bomber had an accident over the North Sea.

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Osobnost Osvalda Závodského (1910–1954) s důrazem na jeho účast v občanské válce ve Španělsku

Ladislav Holdoš : interbrigadista ze Španělska jako "buržoazní nacionalista" v procesu s Gustávem Husákem

Od interbrigadisty k palubnímu střelci 311. perutě RAF : rotný Rudolf Bolfík (1913-1941)