Konec československé Podkarpatské Rusi
The End of Czechoslovak Carpathian Ruthenia

The liberation of the easternmost part of the Republic by the Red Army saw the start of systematic pressure of the Soviet forces against the activities of the restored Czechoslovak authorities.

Summary/Abstract: Seventy-five years ago, on 22 January 1946, the establishment of the Zakarpattie Oblast in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic brought to an end the fourteen-month history of the temporary quasi-state of Carpathian Ruthenia which was de iure in the territory of the third Czechoslovak Republic. Its declaration in November 1944, presented by the contemporary authorities as the manifestation of the free will of the local populace, was in fact a mere pretence for the forceful annexation of almost one-tenth of our state territory by the Soviet Union.

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