Historians: “Liberation, not occupation”

Historians agree that the arrival of the Red Army into Czechoslovakia at the turn of the years 1944-45 and their expulsion of Nazi forces from the country was liberation, not a Soviet occupation. Director of the Museum of Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica Stanislav Mičev discussed this with Jozef Bystrický of the Military History Institute in a session of RTVS on Saturday. Moreover, according to Mičev it is also incorrect to associate the arrival of the Red Army at the end of the war with the later establishment of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. "The Communist regime was not here until February 1948," he said.