Communist Resistance

Already in the period of the Second Republic (October 1938 to March 1939) the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was banned. After the occupation, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia organised the departure of members who were in danger of arrest to the Soviet Union (Klement Gottwald, Rudolf Slánský, Václav Kopecký). The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia became involved in the resistance to a greater extent after the USSR entered the war; until then, there was an illegal committee and illegal press. Soon, subversive, later intelligence and partisan activities started to develop. The leader of the illegal Communist Party in North Moravia was Ladislav Ševčík, who was killed in February 1943. Pre-war members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, united around Jakub Bílek, formed the intelligence and later the partisan group Jiskra in the Frýdek region.