Efforts to resolve the issue of coexistence between the Roma community and the majority society started with the newly established independent Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. State policy was primarily bureaucratic and repressive in nature. After 1948 and the rise of the communist party, the position of the Roma in Czechoslovakia deteriorated significantly. This situation then escalated further during the era of so-called normalization. The socialist regime tried unsuccessfully to assimilate the Roma minority.

The article dwell on travellers, of which there were very few in the region, but does not speak much about the resettlement after the war.

• Socialismus ublížil nešetrnou asimilací, uvrhl Romy do ghett. In: Seznam. 09.03.2025. https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/jaroslav-kral-socialismus-ublizil-nesetrnou-asimilaci-uvrhl-romy-do-ghett-121159