Cernak was sent to Berlin. as a Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin. where he remained until the end of 1943. Before the occupation of Slovakia by the Red Army in 1945. Cernak left for Austria. In 1946. a measure of extradition turned him to the BenesGottwald national front government. Put to jail in Bratislava he was judged by the socalled national court and sentenced to 3 years. Finally released after serving 2 years in jail. he immediately escaped to Germany in 1948. In Munich. he created a center for the Slovak political refugees and published a strongly antiCommunist newspaper. Free Slovakia. In the spring of 1953.
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