Ak si „Russkij“, tvoje miesto je v Rusku! Peripetie presídlenia slovenských Rusínov do Sovietskeho zväzu v roku 1947
If you are "Russkiy", your place is in Russia! peripeties of the resettlement of slovak Rusyns to the Soviet Union in 1947

Summary/Abstract: The first postwar years after the WW II in the renascent Czechoslovakia were marked by disposing of minorities and by building of ethnically homogeneous state of Czech and Slovak. After the resettlement of German minority and the already running process of mutual exchange of citizens between Slovakia and Hungary, and as a consequence of political development in Ruthenia and the raising of so-called “Ukrainian” issue in the eastern Slovakia, aimed the Czechoslovak government between 1945–1947 its attention on the Ruthenian minority which inhabited the north-eastern regions of Slovakia. Based on the Agreement between Czechoslovakia and USSR of abandonment of Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine) to the Soviet Union, the Protocol to the Agreement of 29th June 1945 and based on the Agreement of 10th July 1946, the Czechoslovak government started the process of option and mutual resettlement of citizens with USSR. Through massive pointed propaganda, soviet agitation and praising of situation in the USSR, which was carried out by soviet agitators with the support of Czechoslovak government and Slovak communists in particular, on the turn of 1946 and 1947, they recruited for the option and resettlement to USSR 12.000 Czechoslovak citizens, which mostly consisted of Slovak Ruthenians.

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