GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47

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- 3 - 38 c The support and leadership of the Aufetand would probably not have accepted this mass. That leadership group of non-arrived Slovak intellectuals and future leaders was it, which at the same time had to be regarded as the bearer of the state ideology of the ÖSR. It sought to establish itself democratically petty-bourgeois as a result of the attitude and exclusions of all its organs, and in the hope of being disturbed by Bolshevik allies in this project all the less than it managed to maintain itself without significant Russian aid until Germany's arms extension, which had been expected almost daily, and which had sometimes been anticipated and propagandistically excluded. Any new ideological thought could not be observed. The fact that Slovakia's independence was surrendered to Ginsten of the ČsR was also a strong ideological burden for the leadership group, which consisted of Slovaks with few exceptions, since it was always one of the most powerful arguments of the HG (Hlinka-Garde) to accuse the "Czechoslovaks" that they were pioneers of the old condition of colonial oppression of the Slovaks by the Czechs. . This natural ideological burden fell on the other side of the insurrection movement, which leaned on the so-called partisanism, politically on the communist party. Here one could by partly quite open distancing from those. Czechs - with frequent references to their present loyal attitude to the empire - and emphasis on the Slovak national ideology in the middle class, as well as especially among the studying youth gain ground. Indeed, the guerrillas movement flocked - 4