One Hour of Music - First Slovak Republic

I had the idea to make this video after realizing that although many Slovak songs had been translated, nobody had ever made a compilation of them. Until midway through collecting songs I found this compilation: I used this compilation to further flesh out this video, as well as adding missing songs and variants/recordings of already present songs. Please do look at the channel and video linked above, I couldn’t have done this video without it. The (First) Slovak Republic (Slovak: [Prvá] Slovenská republika), otherwise known as the Slovak State (Slovenský štát), was a partially-recognized client state of Nazi Germany which existed between 14 March 1939 and 4 April 1945. The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia declared independence with German support one day before the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. The Slovak Republic controlled the majority of the territory of present-day Slovakia but without its current southern parts, which were ceded by Czechoslovakia to Hungary in 1938. It was the first time in history that Slovakia had been a formally independent state. A one-party state governed by the far-right Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party, the Slovak Republic is primarily known for its collaboration with Nazi Germany, which included sending troops to the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. In 1942, the country deported 58,000 Jews (two-thirds of the Slovak Jewish population) to German-occupied Poland, paying Germany 500 Reichsmarks each. After an increase in the activity of anti-Nazi Slovak partisans, Germany invaded Slovakia, triggering a major uprising. The Slovak Republic was abolished after the Soviet occupation in 1945 and its territory was reintegrated into the recreated Third Czechoslovak Republic. The current Slovak Republic does not consider itself a successor state of the wartime Slovak Republic, instead tracing its lineage to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. However, some nationalists continue to celebrate 14 March as a day of independence. Songs: 00:00 - Hej, Slováci/Hey, Slovaks 1:34 - Rež a rúbaj do krve/Cut and Slash Until They Bleed 4:16 - Chceme nazad Košice/We want Košice back 6:51 - Boj o Ukrajinu/War in Ukraine 9:16 - Ej! Chlapci spod Tatier!/Hey! Boys from the Tatras! 12:13 - Jedno Ráno Na Svitaní/One Morning At Sunrise 16:09 - Na Slovensku po Slovensky/In Slovakia in Slovak (Alternate Version of Rež a rúbaj do krve) 19:04 - Padá Rosička/Rosička is falling 21:30 - Bitka o Lypovec/Battle of Lypovec 23:38 - Kamaráti na stráž/Comrades, on Guard! 26:25 - Pod slovenským nebom verne chránia/ Under the Slovak Sky they Faithfully Protect 28:36 - Pod slovenskou zástavou/Under the Slovak flag 29:40 - Husári, husári/Hussars, Hussars 32:14 - Sme Slovaci sme Gardisti/We are Slovaks, We are Guardsmen 35:18 - Slovenský pochod/Slovak March (Instrumental) 38:21 - Písala mi moja milá/My dear one wrote to me 40:48 - Až sa z Vojny Vrátim/When I return from war 44:07 - Gardista Kamarat ty vies aj zivot dat/Guardsmen, Comrade, you know how to give your life 47:23 - Ja Budem Len Pešiak/I’ll just be a Pawn 49:18 - Každá Kasáreň je jak Lekáreň/Every Barracks is like a Pharmacy 51:22 - Nech Žije Sloboda Slovenského Národa/Long Live the Freedom of the Slovak People 53:50 - Slovenské Mamičky/Slovak Mothers 56:40 - Sme Hlinkove Gardy/We are Hlinka’s Guards (Shorter version of Kamaráti na stráž) 58:49 - Verchovina Verchovina 1:01:23 - Hej, Slováci/Hey, Slovaks
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