PT Journal
AU Zmatlo, P
TI The Pribina Festivities in Nitra in August 1933: a Test of the Czechoslovak Regime and Statehood
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2013
BP 133
EP 158
VL 44
IS 1
AB This paper deals with the Pribina Festivities in Nitra from the 12th to the 15th of August 1933. The author mainly describes and analyses the events of August 13th when the festivities culminated in a ceremonial parade and demonstration at Nitra airport, with government members, led by the prime minister Jan Malypetr present. Although there were no serious injuries or traffic accidents during the festivities despite the thousands of people there, members of the Hlinka People's Party disrupted the parade of August 13th and caused subsequent unrest through their verbal attacks on some of the demonstrators. The author analyses these events in detail and attributes them to the centralistic and unitary regime then in place, a regime which was incapable of self-reflection and awareness of the efforts of Slovaks and their representatives at establishing Slovak autonomy within a common Czechoslovak state.
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