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VYDÁVA HISTORICKÝ ÚSTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADÉMIE VIED, V. V. I. ISSN 0018-2575 (print) ISSN 2585-9099 (online) EV 3084/09
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Havária Dakoty ČSA z januára 1956 (levočská letecká tragédia ako príklad československej protiamerickej propagandy v diplomatických dokumentoch) The crash of the ČSA Dakota in January 1956 (the Levoča air crash as an example of Czechoslovak anti-American propaganda in diplomatic documents) Historický časopis, 2025, 73, 1, pp. 175-200, Bratislava. Abstract: The study is concerned with one of various controversial moments in Czechoslovak – American relations in the mid 1950s. The problematic relations between Prague and Washington were reflected in several older or newer questions, which show that in the given period ways of solving them simply did not exist. The reasons included mutual lack of interest or inability to seek and find compromises or bi-laterally advantageous solutions. There are various examples with which we can demonstrate this reality. Obviously, the complexity of relations on the level of one great power and a satellite of the other great power was also reflected in the unequal positions of both actors. In addition, especially in Czechoslovakia at this time, there was strong anti-American propaganda and hysteria, based on political and ideological terminology and argumentation. On the other side of the table lay several significant problems. On the American side of the table, there was failure to solve the compensation for American property (worth about 149 million dollars) nationalized in Czechoslovakia since 1945. On the Czechoslovak side, there was about 18.4 tonnes of gold ingots and coins, originally stolen by Nazi Germany in 1939–1940, but later frozen by the United States and Great Britain. On 18 January 1956, an unfortunate event: the crash of a civil Dakota belonging to Czechoslovak Airlines near the village of Torysky not far from Kežmarok and Levoča, had a further negative impact on the already almost frozen relations between Prague and Washington of the Cold War period. The Czechoslovak communist regime misused the accident in its propaganda, and extracted political, ideological and economic capital from it for at least the next three years. However, it is necessary to add that Washington did not lag behind Prague in propagandist rhetoric. The Americans took up the gauntlet and replied in a similar spirit, but obviously with the opposite interpretations. Keywords: Cold War. Bipolar World. Czechoslovakia. USA. Plane Crash. Communist Propaganda. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2025.73.1.7
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