Od Czechosłowackich Sił Zbrojnych do Czechosłowackiej Armii Ludowej. Armia czechosłowacka w trakcie zimnej wojny 1950–1956. Plany rozbudowy i przekształcenia organizacyjne
From the Czechoslovak Armed Forces to the Czechoslovak People’s Army. The Czechoslovak Army during the Cold War 1950–1956. Expansion Plans and organizational Transformation

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to characterize the organizational transformations of theCzechoslovak army in 1950–1956. Plans for the expansion of the Czechoslovakarmy were formulated in September 1950. Its numbers in 1953 – the peak periodof its development – reached 300,000 soldiers, and the expansion was carried outunder the constant supervision of the Soviet General Staff and Soviet military advisers. The membership of Czechoslovakia in the Warsaw Pact from 1955 was infact the legalization of the facts – the submission of the Czechoslovak army to anexternal disposition center, and its combat value and capabilities were questionable.

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