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Przestrzeń i wojna. Perspektywy lektury kartografii wojennej

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Szalewska K.
Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
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2012
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vol. 3
23-35
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The article reveals various relations between wartime trauma and the urban experience. The eponymous reading of wartime cartography is an attempt at analysing (based on the works, among others, by M. Białoszewski, M. Głowiński, Cz. Miłosz, and W. Szpilman) spatial practices (as understood by M. de Certeau) characteristic of the times of war. Simultaneously, the focus of interest falls on the tension between the statics, the symbolic gesture of leaning over a map in military headquarters, and the vectors of movement, the dynamics that befalls the inhabitants of the areas where military activity is taking place.
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ŠTÁTOPRÁVNE KONCEPCIE O SLOVENSKU V KONTEXTE SLOVENSKÉHO NÁRODNÉHO POVSTANIA

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Chovanec J.
Vojenská história
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 3
174 - 199
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75 years ago, on 29 August 1944, the Slovak National Council and its military headquarters got out of illegality and declared the Slovak National Uprising – an armed fight against the German Fascist occupying forces and domestic traitors for freedom, democracy and renewal of the Czechoslovak Republic based on the new principles of equality and therefore equal position of the Slovak and Czech nation. The study contains an analysis and evaluation of the decisive documents and events, which had immediate effect on the constitutional aspects of the Slovak National Uprising as well as meaning in terms of political power, military and moral meaning. In addition to the above, the study points out to the origin of the Slovak national statehood, which started forming in the SNU already, continuing within the renewed Czechoslovak Republic, which was supposed to be gradually rebuilt into a federal state following the liberation by the Soviet Army. The study particularly highlights the military and international meaning of the SNU, which consisted in the fact that the Slovak nation, through its armed fight in the Uprising, was tying the Wehrmacht military forces, which the German Fascist were then missing on other European battlefields. Through its Uprising, Slovakia joined the global anti-Fascist coalition of countries as well as the states winning over the Fascist Germany in the World War 2.
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ČESKOSLOVENSKÍ VOJENSKÍ DIPLOMATI PO SKONČENÍ DRUHEJ SVETOVEJ VOJNY

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Medvecký M.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 3
61 - 77
EN
The author of the scientific study chose the as yet sparsely processed issue of the post-war renewal of one of the specific units of military reporting service. This unit performed several important tasks not only in terms of reporting service. The author of the study has retrieved this spectrum successfully. He evaluates not only the priority tasks but also points out to the additional spectrum of partial tasks of the Czechoslovak military diplomats. The author managed to capture the complexity of domestic relations as well as the situation inside the military reporting service Headquarters. The focus of the topic is set in the period immediately after the end of the World War 2 and the gradually escalating fight for the political power in Czechoslovakia. This has reflected negatively not only in the process of building the military reporting service under the new conditions but in its other units as well. The 2nd Department of the Headquarters (military intelligence) had the greatest problems. These issues were reflected in the construction of the network of the Military Diplomat Offices – Attachés. The negative consequences also reflected in the deployment of missions and in operations of the exposed military officers. The author used predominantly the archival sources of the Security Services Archive (ABS) and its as yet unprocessed fund. The author has verified the documents and confronted them with the achieved level of scientific knowledge. The period in focus is constantly in attention of the lay and professional public. In particular, the military reporting community keeps experiencing the impacts of the insufficient processing of its history.
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HYGIENICKO-ZDRAVOTNÉ PODMIENKY V PRACOVNÝCH JEDNOTKÁCH SLOVENSKEJ ARMÁDY

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Kralčák P.
Vojenská história
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2018
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vol. 22
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issue 1
107 - 118
EN
The study enriches the current knowledge of the Slovak historiography on the functioning of the Slovak Army work units during the World War 2. In terms of heuristics, the author based his study mainly on the archival sources deposited in VHA Bratislava. From today's point of view, mapping the everyday life of the Work Force members is an interesting topic, in particular housing, catering, health care, cultural and sports activities of the Work Force members. Comparison of the quality of accommodation and catering between the "Aryans" and the Jews and Gypsies shows the great differences in quality between these two groups. There was no permanent improvement of the worker and employee conditions until the end of the Work Force existence. The Work Force members were performing their work under poor working conditions, without basic protective equipment. The Ministry of National Defence was not able to provide for suitable clothing in a long term. The crew were wearing worn-out clothes, button-less, often torn. Many of them had no shoes. They either fell apart or they simply exchanged them with civilians for tobacco, alcohol or food.
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VOJAK ŠTYROCH ARMÁD PLUKOVNÍK GENERÁLNEHO ŠTÁBU RUDOLF PILFOUSEK

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Kozolka J.
Vojenská história
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2018
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vol. 22
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issue 1
119 - 143
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In this contribution, the author deals with the topic of the significant personality of the Slovak military power of 1939 – 1944 – Rudolf Pilfousek. He came from Bohemia, however, he was an officer of the German nationality. Pilfousek was an officer, the service of whom had reflected the complicated and dramatic changes in the constitutional arrangement of the Central European nations of the first half of the 20th century, when different states were rising and falling. During his military career, he served gradually as the soldier of four armies, first as the member of the Austro-Hungarian Army and participated in the final battles of the World War 1. Later on, he served as the higher officer of the artillery of the inter-war CS Army.In 1939 – 1944 he was the member of the Slovak Military Force and Colonel of the General Staff. In conclusion of his military career, he shortly became the member of the German SS, with the rank of SS-Standartenfűhrer. Among the historical community, he is considered to be a negative personality of the Slovak modern military history, a pro-German and pro-Nazi oriented officer of the German nationality, in spite of the fact that originally, during the World War 1, he acted as the totally loyal citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later, after its collapse, as the CSR citizen, he was perceived as fully identified with the Czechoslovak State and its state ideology.
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PRVÁ SS TANKOVÁ DIVÍZIA V ARDENÁCH 1944 (ORGANIZÁCIA A ZLOŽENIE)

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Lamoš R.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 2
109 - 134
EN
The material deals with the organization and composition of the 1st Panzer Division, which in the second half of World War 2 belonged to the best armed SS divisions, with the staff characterized by a high combat morale until the end of the war. Considering its unique position within the Waffen SS, the Division belonged to the strongest Nazi divisions during the war. The author describes the division organization, the planned and chart number of staff, equipment and material in the period before and during the operational deployment in the Ardennes, the last German offensive on the Western frontline in the World War 2. Based on the data obtained through studying relevant documents of the period archived in MA-KA Freiburg, comparing the data presented in the domestic and foreign literature, with the battle photographs and personal observations and knowledge from the field, the author describes the preparation of the troops for the operation in the Ardennes as well as the operational deployment of the groups belonging under the 1st Panzer Division of the SS Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
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JAK TO BYLO S ČESTNOU VOJENSKOU STRÁŽÍ JOZEFA TISA?

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Pejs O.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 4
102 - 124
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The study deals with the topic of the guard of honour of President Jozef Tiso. On a relatively large space, the author describes the circumstances of the origin of this Army unit and provides information on its functioning in 1939 – 1940. The author states that Jozef Tiso’s guard of honour was supposed to fulfil two tasks, in particular the ultimate guard and security service at the seat of the head of the state and the task of the honorary unit with special mandate for welcoming important personalities. The military guard of honour should have symbolised the position of Jozef Tiso as the head of the Slovak state and as the commander in chief of the Slovak military power. Did the military Guard of Honour fulfil this mission in the first months of its existence? There are no doubts that it did, outwardly, since the public accepted it. However, it remains a question whether it symbolised and represented the Slovak Army itself. The military Guard of Honour was a selective rather than a professional unit, therefore to a certain extent. It copied the common infantry divisions it was dependent on, including their maladies. The author states that the uncertainties around the origin, inclusion into the military organism, the name and unsuccessful steps in filling the commander posts do not indicate an exclusive and prestigious position inside the military organism.
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STYKY SLOVENSKÝCH A CHORVATSKÝCH VZDUŠNÝCH ZBRANÍ ZA DRUHÉ SVĚTOVÉ VÁLKY

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Pejs O.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 3
83 – 98
EN
In his original study, on the basis of detailed analysis of the available archival documents of Slovak origin, Slovak period press and published works of Croatian historians and publicists, the Czech historian introduces the reader to the facts documenting the bilateral cooperation of the Slovak and Croatian aviation during the World War 2. The author considered this information in creating the content of his original study. Apart from the historical facts already published, it contains a number of additional, as yet unpresented, information. From this point of view, this is a beneficial paper, successfully eliminating another one of the blank spots of the Slovak military history. The author introduces the reader to many members of the Croatian and Slovak aviation, as yet little known or even completely unknown to the Slovak professional public. In relation to the Slovak aviation, he brought to light the almost forgotten members of the Slovak Aviation Corps: the non-powered flying officer, Jozef Kalnovič; the technical officer, Štefan Pleško; or the main teachers – gliders (non-powered flying instructors) Pavol Poliaček, Štefan Pagáč and Erik Kvasnička.
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NIE SÚ MI ZNÁME DÔVODY, PREČO NEMÔŽEM SLÚŽIŤ V ČS. ARMÁDE. VÝPOVEDE PLK. GŠT. ALOJZA BALLAYA NA VYŽIADANIE ORGÁNOV ČS. ARMÁDY Z ROKU 1946 K SLUŽBE V SLOVENSKEJ ARMÁDE 1939 – 1945 (1. ČASŤ)

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Šumichrast P.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 3
99 – 119
EN
Military service of the Slovak Army members in 1939-1945, in particular their active cooperation with the representatives of the German military missions in Slovakia as well as the participation in the battles against USSR along with Germany, continues to belong to the interesting chapters of the Slovak military history. One of the outstanding personalities of the Slovak military history is General Staff Colonel, Alojz Ballay, who held important command and staff functions in 1939-1944. He left his personal trail particular in the Slovak aviation, the members of which participated successfully in several operations on the Soviet-German frontline. In 1942-1943, he held the function of the Chief of Command of the Aerial Weapons and following the departure of General Staff Colonel Š. Jurech to the Eastern frontline, also the substitute Commander of the Aerial Weapons. With effect from 1 January 1944, he was appointed the Commander of Aerial Weapons by the President of the Slovak Republic and remained in this position until the time shortly before declaration of the Slovak National Uprising, when he was appointed the military attaché at the Slovak Embassy in Berlin, as a replacement for the II. Class General A. Malár. His accounts of the work in the command and staff functions in 1939-1944, as well as the historical events he participated in or witnessed, are summed up in his statements from 1946, he submitted on the CS Army request.
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NIE SÚ MI ZNÁME DÔVODY, PREČO NEMÔŽEM SLÚŽIŤ V ČS. ARMÁDE. VÝPOVEDE PLK. GŠT. ALOJZA BALLAYA PODANÉ NA VYŽIADANIE ORGÁNOV ČS. ARMÁDY Z ROKU 1946 K SLUŽBE V SLOVENSKEJ ARMÁDE (1939 – 1945) (2. ČASŤ)

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Šumichrast P.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 4
125 - 139
EN
Military service of the Slovak Army members in 1939-1945, in particular their active cooperation with the representatives of the German military missions in Slovakia as well as the participation in the battles against USSR along with Germany, continues to belong to the interesting chapters of the Slovak military history. One of the outstanding personalities of the Slovak military history is General Staff Colonel, Alojz Ballay, who held important command and staff functions in 1939-1944. He left his personal trail particular in the Slovak aviation, the members of which participated successfully in several operations on the Soviet-German frontline. In 1942-1943, he held the function of the Chief of Command of the Aerial Weapons and following the departure of General Staff Colonel Š. Jurech to the Eastern frontline, also the substitute Commander of the Aerial Weapons. With effect from 1 January 1944, he was appointed the Commander of Aerial Weapons by the President of the Slovak Republic and remained in this position until the time shortly before declaration of the Slovak National Uprising, when he was appointed the military attaché at the Slovak Embassy in Berlin, as a replacement for the II. Class General A. Malár. His accounts of the work in the command and staff functions in 1939-1944, as well as the historical events he participated in or witnessed, are summed up in his statements from 1946, he submitted on the CS Army request.
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SITUAČNÁ SPRÁVA ZA OKRES HUMENNÉ ZO ZAČIATKU OKTÓBRA 1945 AKO JEDEN Z PRAMEŇOV OPISUJÚCICH STAV MESTA NA PERIFÉRII PO SKONČENÍ DRUHEJ SVETOVEJ VOJNY

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Burda M.
Vojenská história
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2021
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vol. 25
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issue 2
170 - 187
EN
The published situation report from October 1945 for the district of Humenné offers a detailed look at the post-war issues of the residents of the town as well as the Upper Zemplín region, affected by the World War 2 battles at the end of 1944 due to the progress of the Red Army through the Carpathian passes to the Slovak inland occupied by German troops. Liberation of the town of Humenné on 26 November 1944 launched a new era of development for this Upper Zemplín town, determined by a number of factors, starting from the lack of erudite officers and policemen loyal to the newly forming Czechoslovakia, road and railway infrastructure devastated by the war and unfit for transport, more or less damaged economic, self-government, school and residential buildings as well as unsatisfactory agricultural land condition due to the number of mines and machinery left by the troops in the field and surrounding woods. On the background of these issues, the first conflicts between the representatives of the Communist Party and Democratic Party unfolded. The situation report from October 1946, mapping the situation in Humenné and the surrounding municipalities is a unique historical document, on the basis of which we can reconstruct the development of the society, which had to face many life challenges even if on the victorious side.
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JEŠTĚ K PŮSOBENÍ FERDINANDA ČATLOŠE V ZÁŘIJOVÉ MOBILIZACI 1938

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Chytka S.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 3
78 - 82
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In the contribution, the author deals with the question of functional assignment of General Staff Colonel Ferdinand Čatloš in the period of increased threat to the Republic and during the September mobilization in 1938. This issue was as yet unresolved or interpreted in a different way, practically since the first publication about his personality, in particular in the work of Václav Štefanský in 1998. Absence of the papers on the activity of the 2nd Army and their subordinate units – 8th Division Florian and the Border Area 37 as well as the mobilization-based (“double”) 8th Division Mánes, also lead the authors in the case of Ferdinand Čatloš to deal with partial data or (largely) with fragmental memories of F. Čatloš himself. Gradually, two different claims were published in principle. According to the first one, General Staff Colonel Čatloš was the Chief of Staff of the 8th Division Florian (HO-37) in the primary deployment and according to the second, he held the same function in the secondary Staff, 8th Division Mánes, composed for the mobilisation. Čatloš himself did not contribute to clarification of this contradiction, since in his memoirs, which are otherwise incredibly extensive, he only provides vague data on this subject.
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ÚČASŤ PEŠIEHO PLUKU 102 ZAISŤOVACEJ DIVÍZIE NA NEMECKÝCH PROTIPARTIZÁNSKYCH AKCIÁCH V JUHOVÝCHODNOM BIELORUSKU V MARCI A ZAČIATKOM APRÍLA 1942

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Baka I.
Vojenská história
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 2
84 - 108
EN
The author deals with the scarcely processed topic of the involvement of the Slovak Screening Division (SD) in the anti-partisan operations in the occupied territory of the USSR after its transfer under the territorial competence of the Wehrmacht in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine in September 1941. The author states that the direct involvement of SD in the fight against partisans peaked in the first months of 1942. This was connected with the dislocation changes resulting from the German requirement for the Slovak units to participate in the protection of the of the important rail track, Pinsk – Gomeľ, and the anti-partisan operations in the surrounding. During March, the 102 Infantry Regiment of SD was involved into extensive anti-partisan operations of the occupational apparatus, which drastically affected even the local population. The peak of the German-Slovak cooperation at the turn of March and April 1942 was the operation titled Bamberg in South-eastern Belarus, which represented a “pilot” project of the large-scale anti-partisan operations. The nature of the operations was punitive and predatory and affected the civil population prevailingly. The effort for objective interpretation of these events is documented by the fact that the author based his analyses on the German history literature, which have not been considered in this topic as yet.
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SAMOPALY SLOVENSKEJ A POVSTALECKEJ ARMÁDY (1939 – 1945)

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Uhrin M.
Vojenská história
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2018
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vol. 22
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issue 1
56 - 81
EN
The author deals with the machine gun armament during the World War 2. He states that the machine gun has become one of the symbols of the World War 2. Thanks to photographs and movies, the general public became aware of a German soldier with the MP-40 machine gun or a Soviet one holding a PPŠ-41. The Slovak or uprising soldier is linked more to a rifle or some kind of legend. Since 1940, the Slovak Army had been planning to introduce machine guns into its armament. This was based on the German influence and based on the first front-line experiences of the Army. The plan fulfilment started in 1942 when the ZK-383 machine guns from the Brno Munition Factory were ordered, introduced to the Slovak Army as the machine pistol ZB vz.42. Their supplies could not achieve the demanded volume by far. The Army was solving the issue by using the captured Soviet arms and smaller amounts of German machine guns. The effort to introduce machine guns in the army on a larger scale had led to ordering the German MP-41 machine guns. However, these guns were never included in the Army's equipment. The supplies got delayed, postponed and finally cancelled. In 1943, the German MP-40 machine guns were delivered to the Army. The standard German military power machine gun was supplied in several batches with the largest amount delivered as a part of the Eiche armament program. These were introduced to the army as the Sch vz.41 machine gun. Altogether, more than two thousands of these machine guns were supplied, making up the most typical gun in the Slovak Army of this category. The author states that even this number of supplied machine guns was not sufficient. However, the additional supplies involved the third type, which were the Italian Beretta Modello 1938A and 1938/42 machine guns. The Slovak Army did not manage to officially introduce these machine guns into its armament. However, they played their role in the Slovak National Uprising in particular. The rebellious 1st CS Army in Slovakia inherited the material of the Slovak Army. The number of machine guns was also insufficient, however, thanks to the air deliveries of arms from the Allies, the problem was managed to be solved at least partially. The Soviet Union and the USA supplied the rebels with more than two thousand machine guns. Therefore, the rebellious army had more machine guns available from the Allies than from the Slovak Army. The PPŠ-41 machine gun has thus become one of the symbols of the partisan soldier.
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NA MARGO MENOVANIA GENERÁLA VIESTA ZA VELITEĽA POVSTALECKEJ ARMÁDY NA SLOVENSKU (II. ČASŤ)

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Baka I.
Vojenská história
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2021
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vol. 25
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issue 1
56 - 75
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Div. gen. Rudolf Viest belonged to the central personalities of Slovak National Upraising. 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 7 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.
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