Between Solidarity, Business and Politics. Military Training of Africans in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
2020
Abstract
The paper concerns with the military training of cadets from newly established African states in Czechoslovakia (in particular at the Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno) and with approaches of Czechoslovak leadership toward this training as a political and business opportunity. It focuses on the differences between those who paid commercial prices for their training and those who who were provided it within the solidarity with the Third World.
Last but not least, it concerns with the everyday life of the cadets and with the issues of cultural and ethnic stereotypes.