STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2174, sig. 109-8/57

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English Translation

In November 1983, for example, an order was issued for illegal officials dealing with trade union work. This statement describes the total failure of the legal trade unions and calls on them to form red factory cells which, in all cases where the legal unions fail, must take up the struggle and unite all the workers of the enterprise. In the first place, the promotion of internationalist tendencies has largely renounced and that instead it merely places the national liberation of the Czechs in the foreground of its propaganda. According to this method of working, which also had the aim of capturing the national-Czech circles, the KSc. The KSC also strives to win them over by intruding into the Czech-national illegal resistance organization, in order to begin to shake off the German rule together with them and then to move on to the foundation of a Soviet CsR. This is why links are maintained with the national-Czech groups, in particular with the intelligence circles which are essentially composed of Czech National Socialists and Social Democrats. This applies particularly to youth work, in which the KSc. The KSc. has already managed to gain a leading position in the only youth organization in the Protectorate. For this reason, too, the KSc has refrained from maintaining its own youth organization. The illegal youth organisation is a continuation of the former (legal) youth groups of the "Narodni Strana Prace", which had officially disbanded in March l939 in order to immediately resolve the illegal further work. However, while the legal leadership of this youth was essentially in the hands of social democrats and left-wing national socialists, the communists have already succeeded in ./.