Events 2010
The US Army Soldiers in Czechoslovakia After the February 1948
Lecture by Prokop Tomek, Military History Institute
When: Thursday, February 25, at 5:30 PM
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13, Prague 1 – Malá Strana
The U. S. Army soldiers have been represented by communist propaganda as evil. What happened when such soldiers personally appeared on Czechoslovak territory after the February 1948? U. S. soldiers were interrogated by the State Security and the Intelligence Unit of the General Staff in the same manner as if they had been taken as prisoners of war.
Facts were replaced by fabricated accusations, similar to those that were heard in the political show trials of the time. The few desertions led the propaganda to unsubstantiated conclusions that the moral of the U. S. armed forces was decaying.
The cases of U. S. soldiers in Czechoslovakia are in no way a kind of curiosity. They document a specific form of ideological battle between the two blocks during era of the Cold War.
The lecture is based on recently disclosed Czech Archive sources of the State Security, the Borders Guard and the Military Intelligence Unit.
Program will be held in Czech.
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