Czechoslovak People's Army

Czechoslovak People's Army
Československá lidová armáda (in Czech)
Československá ľudová armáda (in Slovak)
Flag of the Czechoslovak People's Army (1960–1990)
MottoZa vlast–za socialismus
Za vlasť–za socializmus
(For Homeland–For Socialism)
Founded1 June 1954
Disbanded14 March 1990
Service branchesLand Forces
Air Force
HeadquartersPrague, Czechoslovakia
Leadership
President of Czechoslovakia
Minister of Defence
Chief of the General Staff
Personnel
Active personnel201,000 (1987)
Related articles
RanksRanks of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces
CSPA tank parade in Prague on Victory Day, 9 May 1985.

The Czechoslovak People's Army (Czech: Československá lidová armáda, Slovak: Československá ľudová armáda, ČSLA) was the armed forces of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1954[1] until 1989. From 1955 it was a member force of the Warsaw Pact. On 14 March 1990 the Army's name was officially reverted to the Czechoslovak Army removing the adjective "People's" from the name. The Czechoslovak Army was split into the Army of the Czech Republic and the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993.

  1. ^ Burian, Michal; Rýc, Jiří (2007). Historie spojovacího vojska [History of [Czechoslovak] Signal Corps] (in Czech). Prague: Ministerstvo obrany – Agentura vojenských informací a služeb. p. 148. ISBN 978-80-7278-414-1.