Polské uhlí, západoněmecké marky. Dodávky uhlí v hospodářských vztazích Československa, Polska a západního Německa v letech 1945–1989
Polish coal, Deutsche Marks. Supplies of coal in economic relations among Czechoslovakia, Poland and West Germany in 1945–1989

Summary/Abstract: Iron Curtain, which devided Europe after the Second World War, significanty changed political and economic ties among countries in Central and Eastern Europe. States that became part of eastern bloc should have – at least according to the propaganda at that time – developed economic cooperation within The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Despite that proclamations, there was ruthless competition and aim to gain as much as possible. By contrast, as a result of political course relations with the western „capitalist“ countries detoriated. However, those ties were never completely cut off, mainly because of economic cooperation, which was for the countries of so called socialist bloc almost only way, how to get foreign currency, modern technologies or scarce goods. One of the commodities, which was very important in economic ties, was coal. Czechoslovakia got this worth material also from Poland, for which it was the main export article. At the sime time Czechoslovakia supplied Western Germany with the coal of home production. The article deals with the issue of export and import of coal in czechoslovak-polish and czechoslovak-german economic relations.

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