Word: banska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody's Spy. Lausman had never lacked physical courage. In 1940 he helped organize the Prague anti-Nazi underground, escaping to London just a jump ahead of the Gestapo; in 1944 he parachuted into Slovakia to lead the abortive Banska Bystrica partisan rising. But as the world split anew between Communism and the West, he lacked the intellectual courage to choose. In 1946 he praised the Russians; on Feb. 20, 1948 he turned about and said: "We are not naive enough to offer ourselves up to the Communists." But five days later, when the Reds kidnaped Czechoslovakia, he stood...
...Czechoslovakia, the hunters stalked the countryside for a new quarry: farmers who owned more than 50 acres of land. The new "class enemies" were packed off to forced labor; their land was confiscated. Prague also named a pro-Communist priest, Dean Jan Dechet, to administer the vacant bishopric of Banska Bystrica. The Vatican struck back by excommunicating Dechet...
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