Můžeme se mnohému naučiti… Dokumenty o spolupráci Československa se zeměmi sovětského bloku v roce 1948
We can learn a lot... Documents on the cooperation of Czechoslovakia with the countries of the Soviet bloc in 1948

Summary/Abstract: The Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior (MV), particularly the State Security (StB), had already been working closely with the security apparatuses of communist countries before February 1948, despite often strained political relations between individual states. Cooperation developed on the basis of party affiliation. This changed after the Communists took power. Within the emerging Soviet bloc, which did not yet represent a power monolith, there was an intensive exchange of information about the organization, work methods, and the education system and professional training, internal and external enemy, etc. Unfortunately, recognizing these ties is limited by the lack of preserved archival material that could serve as a starting point. We know that many meetings took place, but we do not know their proceedings and outcomes. Until the arrival of Soviet advisers in Prague in the second half of 1949, the structure and system of security work were mainly adopted from the surrounding so-called ‘people’s democratic’ countries. Their security services were expected to operate based on Soviet experience, and in this way, the local methods were imported into Czechoslovakia. The beginning of the 1950s brought the consolidation of the Eastern Bloc, the patterns now began to be taken directly from the Soviet Union, without the need for additional intermediate articles. Cooperation and leaning towards the USSR facilitated not only by Soviet advisers, but also by the new state security terminology adopted from Russian or the use of this language during joint negotiations within the Soviet countries block. Czechoslovak security forces - and state security in particular - thus became, as was the case in the surrounding countries, dependent on the Moscow headquarters.

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