Slovakia behind the Iron Curtain and today – event report

Post-war Slovakia. The political system in Czechoslovakia, oscillating between a totalitarian regime and democracy. Influence of the Soviet Union and the rise of left-wing tendencies in a society opposed to the formation of anti-communist resistance. Emigration of our grandparents, or the impact on art and education behind the Iron Curtain. In this spirit, the opening VYF 2018 event preceding the final conference in Banská Bystrica took place on October 18, 2018, at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Speaking at the event were Marína Zavacká, research fellow at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, whose research focuses on the history of propaganda and the context of building regime loyalties in the 20th century, and Juraj Kalina, research fellow at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Archive of the Security Services of the Czechoslovak Republic, whose research includes investigating the forms of anti-communist resistance in former Czechoslovakia and the activities of intelligence services in the 1940s and 1950s.

The full report is available HERE