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As we know, after Czechoslovakia was occupied by German troops in March 1939 and liquidated as such, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic were separated from it. The latter became a puppet state of the Third Reich, and they don’t talk about it and its role in the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, so I’ll correct your ignorance. An organization like the Slovak Glinka Party established cooperation with Berlin even before the fall of Czechoslovakia, setting as its goal the maximum autonomy of Slovakia, or its independence, therefore it was considered an ally by the German National Socialists. It should be noted that this clerical-nationalist party existed since 1906 (until 1925 it was called the Slovak People’s Party). It advocated for the autonomy of Slovakia, first within Hungary (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), and then within Czechoslovakia. One of its founders was Andrej Hlinka, who led the movement until his death. The social base of the party was the clergy, intelligentsia, and the "middle class." By 1923, the party had become the largest in Slovakia. In the 1930s, the party established close ties with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, with Hungarian and German-Sudeten separatists, and the ideas of Italian and Austrian fascism became popular in it. The organization's membership grew to 36,000 (in the 1920s, the party had about 12,000 members). In October 1938, the party proclaimed the autonomy of Slovakia. After Hlinka died of old age, Jozef Gaspar Tiso became the party's leader. This man was educated, served as a priest, with the outbreak of the First World War he was a military chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian troops, a member of the People's Party of Slovakia. In '24 he became a dean and priest in Bánovce nad Bebravou, remaining in this position until the end of the Second World War. After the proclamation of autonomy in Slovakia in 1938, as the head of the most powerful Slovak Party, and concurrently the Minister of Health and Sports, he became the head of its government. In Berlin, they tried to convince Josef to proclaim the independence of Slovakia in order to break up Czechoslovakia. On March 9, 1939, Czechoslovak troops, trying to prevent the collapse of the country, entered the territory of Slovakia and removed Tiso from the post of the head of the autonomy. Support me on Boosty: https://boosty.to/ivanzaitsevskii My VK: https://vk.com/publiczaitsevskogo My Telegram: https://t.me/IvanZaitsevskii #Slovakia #IvanZaitsevsky #WorldWarII #History #Germany #ThirdReich