Andrej Hlinka Mausoleum - Ružomberok, SK
Posted by: haggaeus
N 49° 04.855 E 019° 18.245
34U E 376159 N 5437836
Mausoleum of Andrej Hlinka, a catholic priest and a Slovak nationalist politician.
Waymark Code: WMCCCV
Location: Žilinský kraj, Slovakia
Date Posted: 08/21/2011
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Andrej Hlinka, a native of a village near Ružomberok, a leader of Slovak People's Party, was active in Slovak national liberation movement at the beginning of 20th century. After establishment of Czechoslovakia, he was demanding an autonomy of Slovakia.
He died in 1938, before the Slovaks gained an autonomy in the post Munich Treaty Czechoslovakia in October 1938, and before establishment of a formally independent Slovak Republic, a satellite of Nazi Germany, and he couldn't be held directly responsible for the crimes of that regime. However, he became a state symbol, and the cult included building this Mausoleum.
Sources:
Wikipedia,
an article in Pravda newspaper (in Slovak).