Inspekce ministra vnitra v roce 1968 a posrpnové čistky v aparátu ministerstva
The inspectorate of the ministry of interior in 1968 and the purges in the ministry’s structures after august 1968

Summary/Abstract: After the tanks of the Warsaw Pact armies had ended the attempt at reforming communism, the great ‘settling of accounts’ started across the entire society. This study focuses on the development of the changes at the Ministry and especially among the Inspectorate employees during 1968, describing initially the reformists’ attempts at purging the Ministry and directing it towards “socialism with a human face” that came to a halt as a result of the 1968 invasion. Then the pendulum swung back, bringing along much more radical purges, which resulted in a total stoppage of any reformatory movement at the Ministry (arguably the most important sector for the communist regime), which conformed to the new “normalization” power. Statistics indicate that almost 4,000 people were forced to leave the Ministry between 1969 and 1974 and many of those stayed were transferred to less important positions.

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