The documents submitted vividly illustrate the negative tendencies associated with the activities of Slovak salaried employees who served during World War II and continued serving in the post-war Czechoslovak Army. In the first post-war year, these issues were openly pointed out and severely criticized by the State Secretary of the Ministry of National Defence, General Mikuláš Ferjenčík. As a Slovak, he was actively involved in decision-making concerning the Slovak portion of the Army. Moreover, as a non-partisan individual, he aimed for an objective assessment of the situation. These documents offer a unique period testimony to the character and mentality of the former Slovak defence salaried employees.
In the introduction of the edited document, the author points out to the fact that the so called “nationality key” in forming the CZ command corps after the end of World War 2. emerged from the so called National Personal Structure Model, determining the national proportions for staffing at all command and management levels. Since the state-forming nations were dominating the command corps of the Czechoslovak People’s Army, the nationality key referred exclusively to the Czech and Slovak element. Elaboration of the nationality key should have become an army-wide matter, with all the units of the Ministry of National Defence and General Staff engaged. This should have concerned all service categories and should have been applied to all areas of the army personal work, i.e. to recruitment into the command corps, appointing soldiers for ranks, their promotions and appointments. However, a lot of complications were encountered from the beginning. Particularly in the case of officers, the problem appeared to be most complicated. Their number and method of classification was determined strictly by the so called “systemization” of the service positions approved by the government still according to the regulations of the 24th June 1926. Moreover, the whole area was determined also by the insufficiently clarified bonds and competences of individual ministerial units. The personnel work with the command corps was fragmented. The published archival document comes from the Military Historical Archive Prague.
The submitted material study vividly presents the views of the Democratic Party representatives on the Slovak aspect of the construction of the command corps of the Czechoslovak Army with all its nuances. In the vast majority of cases, this was reflected in a tendentious and schematic way, in the most general level of disclosure of basic trends and indicators, without considering the main mechanisms from which it was directly derived, with an emotional, politically motivated downplaying of all the objective causes that were part of it. The reader has the opportunity to judge which of them was the result of querulantism and which were the result of reality, not allowing to resolve the Slovak question in the army to the satisfaction of the Slovak side.
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