STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31

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20 - 17 tectorate to Slovakia and are given up in Kuty in the aforementioned way. Most of the mail thus promoted is addressed to Waag-Bistritz, where probably a Czech start-up point is located.The board of the post office in Kuti,.Viktor B i l í k is strongly Czechophile and cooperates with the Czechs. With the help of this man, postage from Slovakia after the Protectorate is also to be done illegally. The corruption of many Slovak customs officials paves the way for such links. While individuals have been mentioned so far, it must be added that apparently the protectorate government itself is also converging. In some cases, the Ministry of Education, for example, does not stop the anti-rich activities of the Czechs and in some cases even supports them particularly financially. Previously unconfirmed reports indicate that Czech government groups illegally sent large amounts of money from some state fund to support Czech emigration abroad. It is proved that the Czech Ministry of Education officially supports the "Czech Association for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia" with approximately K 1 2 000.- annual support.The association owns a house in Belgrade where a Czech Masaryk school is located (Belgrad, Garašanino-va 2l). This house was, as is taken from a report by the AA, a collection centre for Czech refugees who were faithful there and who were partly transferred to the Czech Legion in France. It can be assumed that in a similar way the Ministry of Education also financially supported other Czech associations and organisations abroad, which have a cultural background outside of it. Certain political groups of the Czech camp in the Protectorate have been looking for their own connections abroad. Thus, as already mentioned in Part II, the local legal circles probably have their connections with H o d ž a and Osusky with B e r a n at the top. The social democratic direction, here it is the MP 18