VOJNA A MIER PODĽA NIKOLAJA TEGZU (ŽIVOTNÁ CESTA FRONTOVÉHO VOJAKA)

In the portrait, the author describes the life and war peripetia of the front-line soldier, Nikolaj Tegza, of Ukrainian nationality, who found it hard to bear the injustice of Hungarian occupation in the territory of former Ruthenia (autonomous part of Czechoslovakia) and during his effort to illegally cross the borders was interned in the Soviet labour camp NKVD in November 1940. N. Tegza was assigned to Vorkutlag – Vorkuta Corrective Labour Camp (ITL). This was one of the largest camps in the whole GULAG system, about 160 km of the North Pole. In the late 1942, the war events enabled him to enter the CS military unit forming in Buzuluk. With the 1st CS Army Corps in the USSR, he took part in the Carpathian-Dukla operation and liberating operations in the territory of Slovakia.