A prágai tavasz eltiprása és a Nagykürtösi járás
The Suppression of the Prague Spring and the Veľký Krtíš District

Summary/Abstract: The Veľký Krtíš District was established in 1968 during the ‘free air’ of the Prague Spring when the Czechoslovak National Assembly issued a command on the unification of eight municipalities of the Zvolen District and the western part of the Lučenec District. Its establishment was primarily in accordance with the intentions of the state to help this economically underdeveloped region. The leaders of this new administrative unit had to face several challenges in 1968: firstly, they were expected to build all means of infrastructure of the new district; secondly, they had to solve the problems caused by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia during which the Hungarian People’s Army occupied this area.

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