Košice Program
The Košice Program, or Košice Government Program (
The program document was approved on 5 April 1945. It set out the principles of future policy and was referred to as the "program of national and democratic revolution". It shifted the orientation of Czechoslovakia further towards the
collective guilt of right-wing parties and the German and Hungarian populations for the breakup of Czechoslovakia and for cooperation with the Nazi regime. The draft text was prepared by the Czechoslovak Communist Party (KSČ).[3][4][5][6]
Preparation
In the final stages of
fellow traveler
of Communism who supported the coup).
Structure
The program consisted of 16 chapters dealing with various issues of social, political, and economic life, and of the international status of the liberated Czechoslovakia.
The main features of the program are:
- Establishing a regime of limited multi-party democracy on the principle of national unity government, broadly declared as "people's democracy"
- Abandonment of Czechoslovakism; recognition of Slovak self governance and of the Slovak National Council as its representative; accepting the relationship of Czechs and Slovaks on an equal footing
- A new political system based on the Agrarian Party)
- Restrictions on private ownership, socialistreforms
- Denaturalization of German and Hungarian nationals living in Czechoslovakia (with legislative exceptions)
- One-sided orientation towards the Soviet Union in foreign, security and defense policy
- Formation of the Czechoslovak Army on the Red Army principles, introducing "propaganda officers".
References
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- ISBN 9780865164444.
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