„Rázne a prísne proti banderovcom...“ Bezpečnostné a politicko-spoločenské aspekty prienikov oddielov Ukrajinskej povstaleckej armády na územie Československa v rokoch 1945 – 1947
„Resolutely and Strictly against the Banderites...“ Security and Political-Social Aspects of Invasions of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Troops into Czechoslovakia in 1945–1947

Summary/Abstract: Several Ukrainian Insurgent Army – UIA troops (the so-called Banderites) with their propagandist and escape invasions of Slovakia in the first years after the World War II caused not only the largest military action of the Czechoslovak army after the war for whole decades. but also had great political and social influence. In some moments, it even overshadowed the actual military activities occurring in connection with the fight against the UIA. The very aim itself and implentation of the first invasions of UIA in northeastern Slovakia in autumn 1945 and spring 1946 had a clear political focus. It was the third invasion by some of the UIA troops into the territory of Czechoslovakia in 1947, although it had its primary political subtext, that was mainly a military affair. However, gradually increasing political influence of this issue on the internal political development of the republic completed it later.

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