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Status of LGBT people in selected Central European countries
Eckhardt, Kryštof ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Šerý, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis analyses the status of LGBTQ people in selected Central European countries through a discursive analysis of selected media and legislative sources. The thesis examines the development of the legal status of LGBTQ people in each state, and it also addresses the question of the impact of the phantom Iron Curtain border on the situation of LGBTQ people in each state. Through the research conducted, it has been found that in the last ten years there has been both an improvement and a deterioration in the legal status of LGBTQ people in Central Europe. Between 2014 and 2024, same-sex marriage was introduced in Germany, Austria and Slovenia, and the Czech Parliament adopted an amendment to the Civil Code in 2024, which will introduce same-sex partnerships on 1 January 2025, guaranteeing more rights for same-sex couples, including, in part, parental rights. The introduction of a similar registered partnership is expected in Poland after the change of government. Hungary is a country that has pursued a highly restrictive policy towards LGBTQ people over the past decade. The situation in Slovakia continued to deteriorate after the terrorist attack in Bratislava. Furthermore, the phantom border of the former Iron Curtain has been found to have enormous discursive power on the issue of LGBTQ...
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Operation Jizerka
Eckhardt, Kryštof ; Pokorný, Jiří (advisor) ; Havlůjová, Hana (referee)
The bachelor thesis will focus on the "Action Jizerka", which took place on July 24, 1949. The introduction will explain the historical context and development, not only the general history of Czechoslovakia, but also the historical development in the scout movement in the Czech lands regarding the so-called Action Committee Junak's headquarters. The work offers two views of the event, a view of state security and a view of a scout witness, which he then compares. The execution, investigation of the action and subsequent court proceedings will be described based on archival materials. The work will also focus on rehabilitation processes with selected actors. The scout view will be based on the memories of one of the surviving scouts, Radomil Raja. The work will further focus on the issue of a possible StB agent in the group. The thesis presents the general principles followed by the StB in the use of agent provocateurs, which then applies to specific people from the Jizerka event to prove that the scout group was infiltrated by the agent provocateur, and that the whole event was planned by the state security to destroy scouts. near Železný Brod. The work will also present other actions against the scout movement and based on them, including the "Jizerka action" will show the systematic destruction...
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