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• Army General in memoriam Rudolf Viest

  Hero of the Slovak National Uprising. Tortured by the German Nazis. During interrogations, he often repeated that he believed in the defeat of Nazism.

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• Denel Rooivalk

  Designed and built in South Africa, the Atlas AH-2 Rooivalk is an attack helicopter for combat zones during day and night deployment, even in bad weather.

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• Ferdinand Čatloš

  Slovak general, Minister of National Defence of the wartime Slovak Republic, briefly imprisoned after the end of the Second World War, later worked as a civil servant.

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• Ferdinand Ďurčanský

  On the day of the establishment of the Slovak State (14 March 1939) he was appointed Slovak Foreign Minister (fourth government of Jozef Tiso and government of Vojtech Tuka). As Foreign Minister of the newly established state, he built up a functioning office and in a short time established embassies in many countries of the world. He retained his government post until July 1940, when he was dismissed from his post at the Salzburg negotiations under pressure from Adolf Hitler. However, he continued to be one of the ardent supporters of the clerical-fascist regime in Slovakia. After the war, he fled to Austria, and from there to Rome via Switzerland.

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• Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache

  The development of a large helicopter for civil and military use was personally promoted by Ernst Udet. From the smaller Fw 61 thus emerged Fa 266, which after the outbreak of war changed to Fw 223 for military deployment.

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• Colonel General in memoriam Ján Golian

  Commander of the 1st Czechoslovak Army and hero of the Slovak National Uprising.

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• JUDr. Gustav Husak

  Czechoslovak politician of Slovak origin, high representative of the ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and in 1975–1989 the eighth president of Czechoslovakia.

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• JUDr.Vladimír Clementis

  Slovak politician, publicist and diplomat

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• Karol Sidor

  Slovak journalist and politician, one of the top representatives and ideologues of moderate clerical nationalism in Slovakia.

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• Milan Hodža

  Biography of politician, pan-European and cosmopolitan

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• Nikolai N. Judenic

  biography of the tsarist general

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• President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic - Antonín Novotný

  The man, who, thanks to his dogmatic Stalinist policy, successfully led the Communist Party to the "Prague Spring".

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• Robert Goddard

  American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1926, which ushered in an era of space flight and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).

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