Uranium minig by forced labor in post war Czechoslovakia - Jáchymov study area
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F13%3A00065811" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/13:00065811 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Uranium minig by forced labor in post war Czechoslovakia - Jáchymov study area
Original language description
The Czechoslovakia became a source of uranium for the Soviet Union defuse industry after the World War II. Small area in the ore region in the western Czechoslovakia was in the centre of attention of world powers shortly after the war - the landscape around town of Jáchymov was the place of world exclusivity - uranium mining. It was the only place where the USSR could immediately obtain uranium ore and begin development nuclear weapons, especially after the U.S. toppled the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Development of Jáchymov area after the World War II is characterized by an exceptional dynamic processes driven by the interest of USSR: to buy uranium, the removal of the domination German population, the advent of new labour force, involuntary stayof thousands of prisoners of war and political prisoners, building of settlements and prison ? concentration camps, open shafts, detailed geological research, creating heaps.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AB - History
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/IAA300860903" target="_blank" >IAA300860903: The fate of Czech post-industrial landscape</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů