Abstract
The article discusses three events from 1930 and 1931 when firearms were used against demonstrators. All of these incidents in Radotín, Duchcov, and Frývaldov (today Jeseník) resulted in casualties.
The text deals with the reaction of the interwar left-wing press that reflected the attitudes of political parties - the governmental ones (Czech and German social democrats, Czech national socialists) as well as the opposing ones (communists). The transnational perspective further adds to the dividing line (two of three incidents took place in border zones with a substantial German population).
The examples show the escalation tactic of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as well as the complex situation of the governmental left-wing parties with limited space for criticism.