Češi v Káhiře. Aktivní pomoc Vojenské akademie Antonína Zápotockého v Brně při budování Military Technical College v Káhiře
Czechs in Cairo. The Active Assistance of Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno in the Constitution of the Military Technical College in Cairo

Summary/Abstract: Czechoslovakia already had some tradition of the arms trade from the pre-World War II period. After the second World War and the establishment of the communist power monopoly in February of 1948, this tradition was to an extent revived. The world entered into a period of tension and expectation of a military conflict. Each block therefore tried to enlarge it‘s sphere of influence, and Czechoslovakia played a unique role as being the main weapons supplier. The task of this paper is, therefore, to reconstruct the course and the form of this part of Czechoslovak history – a unique and scarcely known operation MTC Cairo – and to point out its broader place in world history. The paper was written on the basis of the archive materials from the Military History Archive in Prague and the Administrative Archive of the Military of the Czech Republic in Olomouc. The course and form in the assistance of the military instructors from the Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno at the Military Technical College in Cairo can be reconstructed from these above documents.

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