Legal, Diplomatic and Moral Aspects of Deportation of Czechoslovaks to the Soviet Gulag

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Legal, Diplomatic and Moral Aspects of Deportation of Czechoslovaks to the Soviet Gulag

Original language description

On May 8, 1944, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union signed a treaty on the relationship between the Czechoslovak administration and the Red Army on the territory of Czechoslovakia in the course of its liberation. According to it, all power had to be in the hands of the Czechoslovak authorities. However, the Soviet Union did not respect the treaty. Czechoslovak civilians were captured and deported by the thousands to Soviet Gulag camps, in violation of the laws and sovereignty of Czechoslovakia as an allied country. Czechoslovakia requested the immediate repatriation of those deported, but the Soviets unyielding and manipulative diplomacy refused to comply with the legal and moral arguments. On the Czechoslovak side, nationalism and the later enforcement of selective repatriations by the Communists was a substantial failure with far reaching consequences. The deportations led to the deaths of many innocent people, created serious social problems, and caused life-long trauma and political persecution for those who survived. In my article, I will examine the constitutional and legal aspects of the deportations as well as the impact of the deportations on the repatriated survivors. I will comment on the compensations legalized in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic. I will also provide a larger context for the deportations of Central Europeans to the Soviet Gulag. My conclusion is that the deportations of an estimated 10,000 civilians from Czechoslovakia could have hardly been avoided due to the hegemonic position of the Soviet Union in Central Europe and that the increasing communization of Czechoslovakia after World War II benefited them.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights. Organized in Prague on March 7–9, 2019, Anglo-American University, Czech Republic, Norwich University, Vermont, USA: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference.

ISBN

978-80-906585-9-2

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Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

91-103

Publisher name

Anglo-American University

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Prague

Event date

Mar 7, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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