Obrana Podkarpatské Rusi
The defence of Carpathian Ruthenia

Summary/Abstract: In addition to the seventieth anniversary of the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, we also commemorate the occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia by the army of Horthy’s Hungary. This study focuses on specific events in the easternmost part of the period Czechoslovak republic, the political turbulence at the turn of 1938 and 1939, various countries’ interests in territorial gains at Czechoslovakia’s expense, and on separatists’ efforts to eliminate Czechoslovak power in Carpathian Ruthenia. Developments culminated in March 1939 as Czech military and police forces were involved in numerous rear-guard actions, followed by the evacuation of Czechoslovak citizens from Carpathian Ruthenia. Carpathian Ruthenia never became a part of Czechoslovakia again.

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