Československý výbor obránců míru a Československý mírový výbor v letech 1949– 1989
The Czechoslovak Committee of the Peace Defenders and Czechoslovak Peace Committee in 1945–1989

Summary/Abstract: Shortly after the World Congress of the Peace Defenders that took place in Paris and Prague in April 1949, the Czechoslovak Committee of the Peace Defenders was established as a one of the first national peace committees. At the very beginning of its activity, the presidency of the Czechoslovak Committee of the Peace Defenders had to deal with its relation to the National Front, since its activity overlapped the activity of the National Front. The peace question was pursued not only by the National Front, but also by a number of voluntary associations united under the National Front (Czechoslovak Red Cross, Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters and others). This was the cause for the unifying process of the formerly independent district committees of the peace defenders that lasted until 1959; their tasks were eventually taken over by the district committees of the National Front. The whole issue was finally solved by merging the Czechoslovak Peace Committee bodies (a successor of the Czechoslovak Committee of the Peace Defenders founded in 1968) with the body of the National Front in 1975. The fall of the Communist regime in 1989 brought a possibility of founding of a new, fully independent organisation to pick up the activities of the Czechoslovak Peace Committee. Unfortunately, the opinions of how the organisation should work varied so much that the prepared association split at the beginning of the year 1990 into the Czechoslovak Peace Union and Czechoslovak Peace Society.

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