Criminal law aspect of the issue of alterations in the possessive relationships in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1989
Abstract
The paper deals with the criminal law aspects of alterations in the possessive relationships in the territory of Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1989. In chronological order it surveys the most important criminal regulations in their historical context, whose component parts have always been not only social, but also possessive changes.
The issue heads from the after-war nationalization and criminal rules protecting this process through waves of agrarian reforms, period of persecution as well as liquidation of opponents of the totalitarian communistic regime during the political processes in the 1950s - connected also with confiscation of their property - towards the structure of sanctioning system with a review of individual types of punishments. The paper deals also with individual types and forms of ownership elaborated by contemporary legal theory and with the system of criminal law protection of the socialistic economy by means of respective penal codes.
The conclusion presents attempts to reform socialistic economy during the rehabilitation era at the end of the 1960s followed by criminal retaliations and possessive changes during the so called normalization as well as the position of corporations in the socialistic type of economy.