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Vynucování pracovní povinnosti v socialistickém Československu prostřednictvím trestního práva po roce 1961
| Title in English | Enforcement of Labour Duty in Socialist Czechoslovakia through Criminal Law after 1961 |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Míľniky právneho vývoja v Európe po prvej svetovej vojne |
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| Web | Open access sborníku |
| Keywords | Socialism; Czechoslovakia; Labour Duty; Offence; Social parasitism |
| Description | This article deals with the enforcement of labour obligations in socialist Czechoslovakia through criminal law, with an accent on the period between 1961–1990. The labour obligation is an institution typical of totalitarian states. In Czechoslovakia, the communists believed that its observance would be automatic and that the need for its enforcement would disappear with the establishment of the socialist system. This did not happen, however, and so a new institution of criminal law had to be introduced, called "social parasitism," which was intended to punish all people who avoided work or made an unfair living properly – and through this criminal sanction to re-educate them to conform to the ideas of the ideal socialist man. |
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