Kauzy generálov Jiřího Štiku a Oldřicha Burdu v kontexte invázie vojsk Varšavskej zmluvy do Československa v auguste 1968

Cases of the Generals Jif Stika and Oldřich Burda in the Context of Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968

Autor: MASKALÍK Alex

MASKALÍK, Alex: Kauzy generálov Jiřího Štiku a Oldřicha Burdu v kontexte invázie vojsk Varšavskej zmluvy do Československa v auguste 1968

MASKALÍK, Alex: Cases of the Generals Jif Stika and Oldřich Burda in the Context of Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

Vojenská história, 4, 17, 2013, pp. 124-138.

In the published material, author explains the cases of the Chief of the General Staff Intelligence Report, General Burda, and the 7th Army of Air Defence Chief of Staff, General Stika, in the context of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968. The cases were interesting from the viewpoint that the Czechoslovak Army Commanders had to intensively deal with them immediately following the August invasion (and thus as with the first ones in general). At the same time, these high-ranking army officers also belonged to the first high officers of the Czechoslovak Army sanctioned for their disagreement with the invasion and following occupation of Czechoslovakia by the allied troops in the period of emerging normalization by a loss of position and subsequent end of career. The published archive documents of the contemporary Cadre Review of the Ministry of National Defence on the aforementioned cases come exclusively from the archive ofthe Personnel Agency of the Ministry ofDefence of the Czech Republic in Prague.

Keywords: Military History. Czechoslovakia. August 1968. Jiří Štika. Oldřich Burda.

Ročník: 17 | Číslo: 4/2013 | Stránky: 124-138