C.S.R. Commemorative Medal.

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Gents,

located this one recently here in Deva, and would like to know more about it.

Kevin in Deva.

[Kev in Deva]

Kevin in Deva.

[seb16trs]

hello, this is the commemorative medal for 20 th anniversary of the 2nd slovak uprising. Created on june 12, 1964.

Edited June 22, 2009 by seb16trs

[Kev in Deva]

hello, this is the commemorative medal for 20 th anniversary of the 2nd slovak uprising. Created on june 12, 1964.

Hallo seb16trs

Can you give any details on the event: 2nd Slovak uprising,

just so I can have a better understanding of the medals history.And idea as to how many were issued etc.. etc..

Kevin in Deva.

[seb16trs]

hello Kevin;

I did a mistake about the term "second". I don't remember where I read this precise adjective about the slovak uprising. The first basic references I found in english langage all speak of "slovak national uprising".

here's an excerpt of Wiki:

The Slovak National Uprising (Slovak: Slovensk? n?rodn? povstanie, abbreviated SNP) or 1944 Uprising was an armed insurrection organized by the Slovak resistance movement during World War II. It was launched on August 29, 1944 from Bansk? Bystrica in an attempt to oust the collaborationist government of Jozef Tiso. Although the rebel forces were defeated by Germany, guerrilla warfare continued until the Soviet Army seized Slovakia in 1945.

In the post-war period, many political entities attempted to "hijack" the uprising to their credit. The communist regime in Czechoslovakia presented the Uprising as an event initiated and governed by communist forces. Slovak nationalists, on the other hand, claim that the uprising was a plot against the Slovak nation, as one of its main objectives was to oust the regime of the puppet Slovak state and reestablish Czechoslovakia, in which Slovaks were dominated by Czechs. In fact, many factions fought in the uprising, including large rebel units of the Slovak Army, Slovak partisans, communist partisans, and international forces. Given this fractionalization, the Uprising did not have unambiguous popular support. Yet, the participants and supporters of the Uprising represented every religion, class, gender, age, and anti-Nazi political fraction of the Slovak nation.

The remaining article is interesting enough to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising