Gulag a Československo - Perzekuce československých občanů a krajanů v Sovětském svazu – Hradilek Adam (2024)

The publication provides extensive testimony about the repression against Czechoslovak citizens and compatriots in the Soviet Union during World War II. Thousands of refugees from Subcarpathian Rus, hundreds of Jews from the Protectorate, and other residents of occupied Czechoslovakia who sought refuge from racial or political persecution by Nazi Germany or Horthy's Hungary were affected. Most of them were arrested by Soviet authorities for illegal border crossing, espionage, and other fabricated offenses, and sentenced to several years of forced labor. In the gulag camps scattered across the USSR, their fates intertwined with those of compatriots who had been previously sentenced during collectivization or the Great Terror. Other Czechs and Czechoslovaks became victims of mass murders and executions orchestrated by the Soviet Security. The book, created by leading Czech experts based on their long-term research in Ukrainian, Russian, and Czech archives as well as interviews with witnesses, contains over three hundred photographs, documents, and maps illustrating the fates of the forgotten victims of the Soviet regime. It is published jointly by Academia and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture...