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V roku 1969 v prvej vlne normalizačných čistiek bol prepustený z armády a degradovaný na vojaka. V roku 1977 podpísal Chartu a pokračovala jeho perzekúcia zo strany vládnuceho režimu. Hodnosť mu bola vrátená až začiatkom roku 1990. V októbri 1992 bol povýšený do hodnosti generálporučík vo výslužbě.
Za svoj postoj voči okupácii Československa Sovietskou armádou bol v roku 1969 prepustený z armády a degradovaný. Hodnosť mu bola vrátená až začiatkom roku 1990. V októbri 1992 bol povýšený do hodnosti generálporučík vo výslužbě.
Michal Kričfaluši was born 3.9.1921 in Kričov, district Ťačovo, Podkarpatska Rus. At the age of six he lost his father and his mother was left alone with two children. He grew up in poverty and with hard work. Nevertheless, he was an excellent student and in 1936 he entered a two-year farm school. There he caught the eye of the school's headmaster, Vasil Babichenko, a former White Guard. He urged his mother to let him continue his studies. After Hungary seized the territory in April 1940, he fled with other comrades over the ridge of the Polonin Carpathian Mountains to the USSR, where they were arrested for illegal border crossing and sentenced to three years. They ended up in the NKVD labour camp at Kolyma. After the outbreak of the war, he managed to get out of the camp to join the emerging Czechoslovak unit in Buzuluk. According to some documents he was conscripted on January 30, 1943, according to others on February 12, 1943. As he first had to undergo basic training, he did not reach the front until the autumn of 1943 as a member of the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Brigade, which he joined in May 1943 in Novochoperska. He fought as a scout during the fighting near Kiev in November 1943. He also took part in the battles of Zhashkov and Bila Tserkva.
In 1944, he was selected for service in a special purpose company and underwent training for deployment behind enemy lines. On September 27, 1944, he was dropped on the territory of eastern Slovakia and became commissar of the partisan detachment "Borkaňuk" in eastern Slovakia. In the area of Perečín before Christmas, he crossed with the detachment to the territory occupied by the Red Army and the detachment was disbanded. Kričfaluši returned to the corps. He became the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of Infantry Battalion 4 3. Czechoslovak Infantry Brigade of Karel Klapalek. In the fighting at Liptovský Mikuláš, he was hit by a shrapnel in the chest on 5 February 1945 and did not wake up until he was in hospital. The war ended for him then.He was awarded Czechoslovak, Polish and Soviet decorations for his combat activities.
After the end of the war he remained on active duty, beginning his career as a professional soldier at the rank of second lieutenant. He made a significant contribution to the organisation and training of the CSA airborne units, in 1951-1955 he was already at the rank of colonel commander of the airborne troops (Velitelství parachute troops), later in 1958-1960 commander of the 14th Airborne Troops. Mechanized (Motorized) Division[/url], in 1960-1961 he served as deputy chief of the Combat Training Administration, and in October 1961 he was promoted to the rank of major general, in 1962-1967 he was commander of the 2nd Motorized Division.
In August 1968, he opposed the Soviet occupiers, escaped several attempts at physical liquidation, and was charged with sedition, for which he was dismissed from the army and demoted to private in 1969 in the first wave of normalization purges. He signed the Charter in 1977 and his persecution by the ruling regime continued. After 1989 he was rehabilitated and in early 1990 he was restored to his rank of major general. In October 1992, he was promoted to the rank of retired lieutenant general. He died on 16 June 1994.
Michal Kričfaluši wrote his life story in the form of fictionalized memoirs and brought them to the Society of Rusyns and Friends of Subcarpathian Ruthenia in the early 1990s. Several hundred typewritten pages were edited by historian Karel Richter and published in 2004 under the title Accounting with Time.
