page_title: Andrej Hlinka
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Andrej Hlinka / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Slovenčina: Detail. Pamätník Andreja Hlinku v Nižnej Šebastovej mestská časť Prešov
context_page_description: Andrej Hlinka was a Slovak Catholic priest, journalist, banker and politician, one of the most important Slovak public activists in Czechoslovakia before Second World War. He was the leader of the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, papal chamberlain, inducted papal protonotary, member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia and chairman of the St. Vojtech Fellowship.
context_section_description: During the first Slovak Republic, client state of Nazi Germany (1939–1945), Hlinka was considered by the regime as a national hero. Josef Tiso, his deputy and successor in Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, became the president of the fascist first Slovak Republic. Hlinka Guard, militia maintained by the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party created shortly before Hlinka's death, later participated in The Holocaust in Slovakia.
  In Communist Czechoslovakia Hlinka was portrayed as a "clerofascist".
  After the fall of Communism, Hlinka became again a respected person, mostly to nationalist sympathisers and to Christian democratic organisations, while the rest of current Slovak society seems mostly indifferent towards Hlinka's memory. Hlinka's image could be found on the Slovak 1000-crown banknote, before Slovakia's adoption of the Euro in 2009. A motion in the Parliament of Slovakia to proclaim him  "father of the nation" nearly passed in September 2007.
  Now Andrej Hlinka, is mostly commemorated in his native Černová, where his House can be found. The exhibit is open to the public. Recently, the Mausoleum of Andrej Hlinka in Ružomberok was reopened.
caption: Andrej Hlinka statue in Prešov
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