Kaschau program
The Košický vládny program (Slovak; in German Kaschauer program ) of April 5, 1945 was the government program from the first meeting of the Czechoslovak government at the end of the Second World War under the government of Zdeněk Fierlinger I and the " Národní fronta Čechů a Slováků " in Kosice in Czechoslovakia .
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The Košice program, a political declaration of principles, mainly written by the foreign politician Edvard Beneš , was announced by the Prime Minister Zdeněk Fierlinger as a result of the Moscow negotiations in Košice ( Košice ) in eastern Slovakia , which was occupied by the Soviet Red Army . In May 1945 Košice became the provisional seat of the government of the "National Front" of Czechoslovakia.
The following points were established, among others:
- Coalition government with Komunistická strana Československa (Communists), Česká strana sociálně Demokratická (Social Democrats), Československá strana národně socialistická (Socialists), Catholic People's Party and Demokratická strana (Slovak Democrats).
- The Czech Agrarian party , commercial party , National Association , Slovak Hlinka's People's Party and minority representatives are prohibited.
- The basic industry, banks and insurance are to be nationalized.
- The traditional district and community administrations are to be replaced by the “ national committees ” to be elected by the population .
- People's courts are set up in conjunction with national committees.
- Cleansing in the field of education and culture.
- The Czechoslovak People's Army is to be reorganized along the lines of the Red Army and its training by Soviet instructors.
- The Czechoslovak officers are supposed to study at military academies in the Soviet Union .
- Appointment of political commissioners as "education officers".
- The Slovakia should, while respecting their autonomy be reintegrated.
- Alliance and close cooperation with the “victorious Slavic great power in the east”, the Soviet Union in all areas.
- Friendly relations with the democratic western powers within the framework of the “ anti-Hitler coalition of the United Nations”.
- The citizenship of citizens of German and Hungarian nationality, which had supported the Nazis, is to be withdrawn and they themselves are distributed be.
- Collaborators should be punished.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Glotz : The expulsion - Bohemia as a lesson. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-550-07574-X , p. 197.