REVENGE IN THE ARMY. PART 2 (ARMY UNDER THE SURVEILLANCE OF MILITARY COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE)

Based on extensive archival research, the author continues to explore the issue of so-called normalisation in the military environment. It points to the specific ways whereby this process differed from social developments. The aim of the so-called normalisation was to make the army once again a loyal and stabilising pillar of the neo-conservative regime. In addition to the so-called healthy core of military normalisers, a prominent role in the security forces was played by the military counter-intelligence. It permanently exerted pressure to increase the speed of the purges. At the same time, the new party power centre lead by G. Husák was kept in fear of the so-called internal enemy.