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Jaromír Vykoukal

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(Not only) Prehistoric fortifications in our territory, part 2

In this next part we must deviate from purely prehistoric fortifications. This is due to the fact that localities that have so far been identified in our territory as the seat of prehistoric cultures were extensively used at the time of the arrival of Slavs to our territory and new fortifications were again erected on the remains of prehistoric cultures. the first princely and royal castles stood on them in the form of strongholds, and on many of them there are castles or their abandoned ruins to this day. So we will try to transfer to the deep past and, if possible, connect it to the present.
🕔︎ 20.10.2011 👁︎ 38.978

Czechoslovak People's Army - Part 1

The Czechoslovak People's Army is a phenomenon of our history that will not reach its objective assessment until many years later. The point is that this armed corps grew on the ruins of the bourgeois Czechoslovak Army and its burial of the government troops of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in connection with the participants in the armed struggle against Germany and its satellites, ie units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and units that arrived to their homeland from the territory of Western Europe, mainly from Great Britain.
🕔︎ 03.09.2007 👁︎ 50.593

Czechoslovak People's Army in attack - Part 1

For Czechoslovak People's Army - during my career in it - valid combat regulations, the attack was considered the main type of combat. It was determined that this was the only way to inflict decisive losses on the enemy, and if you had a political doctrine of defense, to transfer the fight back to its territory.
🕔︎ 22.08.2011 👁︎ 27.592

Czechoslovak People's Army in attack - Part 2

For Czechoslovak People's Army - during my career in it - valid combat regulations, the attack was considered the main type of combat. It was determined that this was the only way to inflict decisive losses on the enemy, and if you had a political doctrine of defense, to transfer the fight back to its territory.
🕔︎ 22.08.2011 👁︎ 20.256

Czechoslovak People's Army in defense - Part 1

For Czechoslovak People's Army, during my career in it, according to the valid fighting rules, defense was considered one of the main types of fighting. It was determined that this is the only way to inflict decisive losses on the enemy, and if you have a defensive political doctrine, to transfer the fight back to its territory after its aggression, then we will better exhaust the onslaught of a properly conducted defense.
🕔︎ 11.09.2011 👁︎ 27.179

Czechoslovak People's Army in defense - Part 2

For Czechoslovak People's Army, during my career in it, according to the valid fighting rules, defense was considered one of the main types of fighting. It was determined that this is the only way to inflict decisive losses on the enemy, and if you have a defensive political doctrine, to transfer the fight back to its territory after its aggression, then we will better exhaust the onslaught of a properly conducted defense.
🕔︎ 11.09.2011 👁︎ 25.418

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 1

The proclamation of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948 was the result of World War II, in which Jews were the target of an unprecedented final liquidation by the Nazis. The desire of the Jews for their own country was not only the result of the Holocaust , it is primarily a spiritual matter of Judaism, related primarily to the exodus to which the Jews have been subjected several times in their long history. The Holocaust only accelerated it.
🕔︎ 13.11.2011 👁︎ 36.798

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 10

The proclamation of an independent state of Israel has provoked a wave of sympathy in our society. This wave of sympathy spread across all groups of the population and this fact aroused a great response among war veterans from Svoboda's corps. Here it is necessary to realize that a large part of the units of Svoboda's army, mainly as long as it was a separate battalion and then a brigade, was made up of soldiers of Jewish origin.
🕔︎ 08.01.2012 👁︎ 23.274

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 2

After the war, our country found out that the vast majority of its citizens of Jewish nationality were sent to extermination camps and liquidated by the occupation administration in the Protectorate and the special behavior of the political leadership of the Slovak state. From this consciousness arose a certain sense of need to at least correct this. This was one factor that became the breeding ground for aid to the new state.
🕔︎ 13.11.2011 👁︎ 41.975

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 3

The Israeli armed forces have always suffered from a lack of weapons. Returning to the first part, it is stated that at the end of 1947, Hagana had 900 quality rifles, 900 light machine guns and ammunition for three days of combat. Chaim Herzog even states in his book on the Arab-Israeli Wars that the machine guns were 700 light and 200 universal. I simplified it and added the machine guns. I think that at that time the category of weapons "universal machine gun" did not exist.
🕔︎ 15.11.2011 👁︎ 34.056

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 4

In this chapter, I will try to reconstruct what these supplies actually contained according to the available sources. Unfortunately, the controlled and spontaneous liquidation of a large number of documents associated with these events is the main reason why it is not possible to achieve truly relevant results. Nevertheless, even what is demonstrable is a respectable job. But it is necessary to know that everything stated here was delivered without any doubt.
🕔︎ 18.11.2011 👁︎ 26.036

Czechoslovakia and its military assistance to the state of Israel in the first period of its independent existence - Part 7

Czechoslovak participation in the training of Israeli soldiers The Jewish armed forces, which had to face the superiority of their opponents from the very beginning, fought to the deaths of those sentenced to death. From the very beginning, it was clear to all the fighters that they were not only fighting for their new state, but that they might be facing the possible extermination of all Jews in their part of Palestine. Fortunately, they weren't completely wrong. All healthy men who fought against the German armies and their allies in the ranks of the Allies immediately entered service. And there were not a few of them. In his book on the Arab-Israeli wars, Chaim Herzog states that about 30,000 Israeli men and women had war experience with various weapons. Even the post-war immigration, which consisted of many experienced soldiers, did not hesitate and joined where it was needed. But it was still not enough. The Arab armies were led from behind by experienced professionals from the armies of Great Britain, France and even defeated Germany.
🕔︎ 08.01.2012 👁︎ 27.546

Prehistoric fortifications in our territory, part 3

The Late Stone Age was followed by the Late Stone Age. This period is sometimes called the Eneolithic and then the time when the metallurgy of the first metal, namely copper, was mastered.
🕔︎ 20.10.2011 👁︎ 39.915

Prehistoric fortifications in our territory, part 5: La Tène period - Celts

During the last two and a half thousand years, from today to the past, several waves of settlement and the extinction of various cultures have appeared in our territory. These cultures, or perhaps human communities, built fortified places called fortifications in their defense. Today we will look at the oldest documented period, namely the time of the people of the garbage dumps and the Celtic settlement of our country.
🕔︎ 21.10.2011 👁︎ 41.531

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