Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:04:45 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czechoslovak-politics-behind-slovak-national-uprising-44-8090107© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThis Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the "Slovak National Uprising," the anti-fascist military action that began on August 29, 1944. 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 Nazis and the nominally independent state of Slovakia led by President Jozef Tiso. But as Brian Kenety reports, the politics behind the uprising are far more complex.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/snp_pamatnik.jpg?timestamp=1590305285 https://english.radio.cz/czechoslovak-politics-behind-slovak-national-uprising-44-8090107 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9