Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...
...because, at last, the men who led the fight against materialism seemed to have real ized that material security and social justice had to be achieved under the West's own principles of liberty and individual dignity. Where they were defeated at the polls, Communists in France and Slovakia (see below) prepared to carry on their assault by other means...
President Eduard Benes' National Socialists (who favor, beyond Mickey Mouse, limited nationalization and limited Western orientation) have 54 seats. The People's Party (for capitalism and a strong Western-minded foreign policy) have 48. While Bohemia and Moravia turned left, Catholic Slovakia swung sharply to the right: the province managed to elect 48 Conservative assemblymen...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
Gottwald's Communists set the crushing wheels of their party machine in motion. Bratislava's workers paralyzed the whole city in a general strike, noisily demanded that Conservative election gains in Slovakia be scratched. Slovaks were beginning to learn that Communists, even if defeated at the polls, have ways of continuing the fight...