The First Days of the 1968 Soviet Occupation of Rožňava. Death of a Civilian and Shooting at the Kras Hotel
This paper presents different variants of two stories from Rožňava related to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, based on the accounts of local... Read More
The Statue of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Komárno
The Slovak national culture-heritage organization Matica slovenská decided in 1990 to erect a statue in Komárno to the two Slavonic missionaries, SS. Cyril and Methodius.... Read More
Remembering and Reminding. Memorial Signs of the Komárno Jewry
This study lists the memorial signs and memorials related to the Jewish community of Komárom (Komárno, Slovakia) numbering more than two thousand before Holocaust. The... Read More
Guardian of the Carpathians and Iron Turul. The Rebirth of a First World War Statue Type with an Updated Ideological Message
During World War I, there was an initiative starting in Vienna to set up a wooden statue for charitable purposes, for which people could buy... Read More
Ilona Juhász L.: „We, Hungarian Workers Have Always Trusted in Him.” Two Symbolic Funerals at the Time of the Cult of Personality
Joseph V. Stalin, Soviet Prime Minister and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union died on 5 March... Read More
Gömörfalva, Szeretetfalva, Vasutasfalva, Amerikafalva and Other Villages. Additions to the National Action Announced for Rebuilding Carpathian Villages Destroyed in 1914 in the Fights Following the Russian Invasion
The Russian army invaded Hungary in the autumn of 1914 on its northeastern border, and it occupied relatively substantial areas in a short period of... Read More