Nástup nového trendu národnostnej výstavby ČSĽA po federalizácii Československa a jeho limity

A new Trend in the National Buildup of the CzechoslovakPeople's Army after Federalization of Czechoslovakia and its Limits

Autor: MASKALÍK Alex

MASKALÍK, Alex: Nástup nového trendu národnostnej výstavby ČSĽA po federalizácii Československa a jeho limity 

MASKALÍK, Alex: A new Trend in the National Buildup of the CzechoslovakPeople's Army after Federalization of Czechoslovakia and its Limits.

Vojenská história, 1, 17, 2013, pp. 71-82.

The author analyzes the context of the social changes in Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1968, arguing that they were significantly translated into new approaches to a number of urgent issues of transnational importance. They were related, inter alia, to the so-called  revival ofthe Slovak issue. It involved a relatively wide range ofproblems, such as the requirements to strengthen the influence of the Slovak national authorities to develop and implement military policy, to significantly expand the representation of the Slovak element in the central authorities, to increase the number of units and on the territory of Slovakia, as well as opinions on the restoration of Slovak national units under the Kosice Government Programme. The most intensive were the voices calling for a new national status of Czechoslovak Republic. Hence, the issue was also reflected in the new approaches to solving the ethnic issue in the Czechoslovak People’s Army. Finally, attention is given to causal relationships in the creation of the Czechoslovak Federation, with the result that military districts in Slovakia underwent transformation on the national principle. Although the subsequent normalization led to a reassessment of some principles of personnel departmental work, which were conditioned by the events of the Prague Spring, but all the administrative principles of personnel departmental work in the national area remained in force.

Keywords: Military History. Czechoslovakia. Nationality. Czechoslovak People' s Army. Normalisation.

Ročník: 17 | Číslo: 1/2013 | Stránky: 71-82