Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) will attend a ceremony in the
Slovak town of Banská Bystrica on Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of
the outbreak of anti-fascist military action that came to be known as the
Slovak National Uprising.
In its simplest telling, the uprising was the culmination of years of
planning by Slovak partisans, 18,000 of whom fought alongside 60,000
Czechoslovak soldiers against the Nazi Germany and the puppet state of
Slovakia led by the priest Jozef Tiso.
Under communism, the role played by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile,
the Allies, and non-communist partisans was discounted, and the uprising
glorified as a unified action by the Slovak people against fascism in
favour of socialism.