Abstract
The Slovak and Czech exile in Franco's Spain is a little known topic within the question of Czechoslovak post-war exile, despite the abundance of relevant archival documents, as well as the publication of memoirs of several members of Slovak exile in recent years. However, the experiences of Slovak exiles (almost exclusively refugees from the former Slovak State and later university students from Colegio Mayor Santiago Apóstol in Madrid), as well as the Czechs (who fled Czechoslovakia after 1948) and their confrontation with the reality of Francoist Spain, can offer an interesting perspective of a life under an authoritarian regime.
This lecutre aims to examine the Slovak and Czech vision, sometimes utopian, of Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, of its everyday problems and of ist foreign policy; putting it in the context of the anti-communist struggle from exile and in the context of the Cold War.