https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2005.05.13
The present article is a historical analysis of the rise of the idea of the anti-Communist resistance modelled on the Biela Légia. The ambitions of the creators of the Biela Légia transmitter have been compared to the effects of the anti-Communist struggle as recorded by the Czechoslovak Security Service in the process of the liquidation of the Biela Légia in Slovakia. Contrary to memoirs (published in 1999) of J.Vicen, who was chiefly responsible for the Biela Légia transmitter, an analysis of Vicen’s formally recorded testimony concerning the years 1948-1958 makes it clear that the idea of the Biela Légia arose and was put into practice in two stages. Initially, in the years 1948-1949, it was a broadly conceived political movement organised on the territory of Slovakia, a movement that undertook also a spying activity. In this way, Biela Légia, structured on the model of the organisation called Slovenská Tajná Ochrana (The Slovak Secret Self-Defence), was supposed to carry out the WACO intelligence project, financially supported by the American intelligence service called Counter Intelligence Corps. At the second stage, in the years 1950-1955, the Biela Légia existed in an unorganised form, and conducted a non-violent fight against the Communist terror. This struggle consisted in passive resistance to the orders of the totalitarian power. The absence of an organised resistance movement that would effectively defend the society against the regime was supposed to be compensated by the transmitter, which made it possible to address people individually. In opposition to this idea of the transmitter, there appeared in Slovakia numerous armed groups of Biela Légia, the purpose of which was to prepare a major change of political conditions and the restitution of the Slovak State.
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