It has also meant the beginning of a new struggle for the restoration of the values for which the Czechs and Slovaks have been fighting for a thousand years: for freedom and humanitarian ideals. The Czechs and Slovaks have not given up their struggle against the Russian Communist tyranny. Despite the perils and privations of refugee life in exile. some 60.000 have fled the country in protest and to help from the outside. Despite the dissolution of the Sokols. the persecution of the church. the purging of the army. and the collectivization of farms. the leaders of these groups have heroically carried on their resistance. The revolts of 1953 in Pilsen.