STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 385, sig. 109-4/130

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- - 6- killed all the most expensive - the Ehrev" and finally to the revolver, then all this fits into the drawn picture without contradiction. All the motives, which ring to these highly personal testimonies, pass through also the immediate orders of the day issued after the death of Svec to the individual departments of the techechiacal legions, it must be the order of the Day of the 1. Tachecheslovak division of 27/l0., the order to the 1st regiment of this division of 29 October, or finally the funeral speech, which General Syrový held at the tomb of Švec; it is emphasized everywhere that he was driven to suicide because of the militaristic behaviour of the troops and the resulting reproach of the Czechoslovak name. The fact that he had anything to do with the fight against Bolshevism on principle is not touched with any syllable. And finally, when in Prague, after the already many polemics about the interpretation of the figure of Svec between the Czech right and left, it was decided in 1934 to set up a Svec monument, for it was already impossible from the outset to see any symbolic act against Bolshevism in it. On the contrary, it was the time when a Bensch, out of hatred against the Third Reich, drove ever stronger into the camp of Bolshevism, vdera .+ prepared the plan of a pact with the Soviet Union, in which Czech officers' delegations led by Syrový drove to the Soviet union to hold a celebration of resistance against the German great people. At that time, the Czech government, as well as the Soviet Union, which it has promoted, would have decidedly faded a monument to anti-Bolshevist purpose. Indeed, even when the monument was unveiled, no one has even said a word in this direction. For this purpose, the responsible departmental administrator inter- preted that, for the first time ever, it had not returned to the expensive he had returned to NEEe, in order to please them with the state, that the second would be the Chechoslovak before all internal divisions and the Tra ic conflict, and that the third would always have the common goal in mind: protection and defence of the Czechoslovac people. If you add that: