Union of Slovak Partisans

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Union of Slovak Partisans (Slovak: Zväz slovenských partizánov) was a veterans' organization for former Slovak partisans. It was eventually taken over by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and operated as a pro-Communist armed group during the 1947 Slovak political crisis and the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état.

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  • Felak, James Ramon (2009). After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 92, 105, 150–151, 160. ISBN 978-0-8229-7122-1.
  • Kárpáty, Vojtech (2012). "Zväz slovenských partizánov na východnom Slovensku v prvom roku svojej existencie (1945)" (PDF). Pamäť národa (2): 17–34.
  • Nedelsky, Nadya (2012). Defining the Sovereign Community: The Czech and Slovak Republics. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8122-0289-2.