Jozef Tiso
Tragédia politika, kn̆aza a človeka
Année de publication
2021
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A priest who disobeyed the Vatican, a politician who fought with radicals in his own party, a man who became a contradictory symbol of an entire era. President of the wartime Slovak Republic, Jozef Tiso still divides society and historians today. The radical wing used and often abused Tiso's passivity and the "lesser evil policy" to advance its own plans, concepts and personal ambitions. However, they also left the president fully responsible for his own actions. Consciously or unconsciously, they began to make him a future martyr. The question remains, according to the author, whether the introverted Tiso was aware of his ascension to the pedestal of untouchable authority, but also of his absolute responsibility and, in fact, of his political and human loneliness. At the end of his presidency, he no longer had either a serious rival or an equal partner in the government camp. He was, in fact, the only integrating personality of the disappearing state. He was left alone with a huge burden of political and moral responsibility.
