On the eve and during the Second World War, when Hitler's Germany, having seized the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, wanted to enslave or physically destroy their population, the idea of unity of Slavic peoples was revived on a new basis and became widespread, resulting in the Slavic solidarity movement. Historical traditions, the common fate of the peoples of this region as victims of fascist aggression, their struggle for national independence, against a common enemy - these are the factors that served as the basis of the movement. At the head of the Slavic solidarity movement of those years was the All-Slavic Committee in Moscow , an international democratic public organization based on the platform of anti-fascist unity. 1The history of the committee dates back to the All-Slavic rally held in Moscow on August 10-11, 1941. As Z. recalled: Firlinger, who was at that time Czechoslovakia's ambassador to the USSR, initiated the meeting from a group of Slavic public figures living in the USSR. This initiative was supported by the Soviet government and broad circles of the international anti-fascist public. The meeting was opened by the writer A. N. Tolstoy. He stressed the need to unite the Slavic peoples to fight Hitlerism, saying that freedom is not brought on a golden platter, it is taken with weapons in hand. Then representatives of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Montenegrin, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian and other peoples, as well as German anti-fascists, made speeches. All of them warmly supported the idea of the unity of the Slavs. The participants adopted an appeal calling on the Slavic peoples to unite in order to defeat fascism as soon as possible. The Slavic Solidarity movement was declared open to all patriotic individuals, regardless of their social background, philosophical and political views, or religious beliefs .2At the All-Slavic rally, the issue of creating a permanent body of this movement, the All ... Read more