Government rejects compensation for Subcarpathian Ruthenia expellees

The Czech government has rejected the idea of paying compensation to Czechoslovak citizens who lost their property in Subcarpathian Ruthenia after the war. They were forced to leave the region when it was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945. Both the finance and interior ministers opposed the compensation plan put forward by a cross-party group in the Chamber of Deputies, where the matter will now be debated.