Abstract
Something Missing: Czech Society and Transcarpathia after 1989
Highlights
The article studies the "afterlife" of the former Subcarpathia, the present-day Transcarpathia, within the Czech society after 1989
It maps the different ways the Czech society coped with this deficit in its restoration endeavours in the early 1990s
This study maps the different ways the Czech society coped with this deficit in its restoration endeavours in the early 1990s
Summary
It was written in New York by Ivo Ducháček, recently retired lecturer in political science He returns to the last months of the Second World War when he served in the London Czechoslovak Government in Exile as a Director of the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Soviet–Czechoslovak Treaty de iure confirming the de facto annexation of Transcarpathia was signed in June 1945 and was smoothly ratified by the provisional Czechoslovak Parliament six months later After his return from London exile, Ivo Ducháček, eyewitness to these events became an important member of the parliament. He commented the ratification of the Treaty, by saying: "The Chairman of the Peoples Party Jan Šrámek approved of the constitutional law on secession of Subcarpathia on quite specific grounds. It is possible that Ducháček, who spent his long career life on the threshold between journalism, diplomacy, academia and intelligence, was well aware of what he was doing when he wrote, what he did
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