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Tiso
[ tee-soh ]
noun
- Jo·sef [yaw, -sef], 1887–1947, Slovak Roman Catholic clergyman and politician.
Example Sentences
Local council members in the Slovak village of Varin have rejected a request from state prosecutors to rename the country's sole street sign honouring Slovakia's wartime fascist leader, Monsignor Jozef Tiso.
Tiso led the clero-fascist Slovak State, a client state of Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1945.
Slovakia was led during World War II by a Catholic priest and president, Jozef Tiso, who oversaw some of the harshest anti-Jewish laws in Europe.
The wartime President, Catholic priest Jozef Tiso, is still revered by some groups in Slovakia, including members of a far-right party whose logo and other symbols are inspired by those used then by Tiso.
Slovakia declared its independence from Czechoslovakia on March 14, 1939 and became a Nazi puppet state with a politician and Roman Catholic priest Jozef Tiso becoming the country’s president.
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