It is interesting to note that subsequently, a book about Jánošík ("Jur Jánošiak") was also released in Serbia, another former country victoriously emerged from the conflict. This "revenge" of the "Slavic states" is a favourable context for the cult of his personality, whose "resistant and independantist" sides will be glorified as time passes and memory fades. Galicia becomes part of Poland again in 1921, which just proclaimed its independence. By the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dismembered, giving birth to a bunch of new states, including Czechoslovakia. The history of the man ends, but that of the fictional character is just beginning. Skoczylas's representation of the Polish outlaws The legend says he taunted his judges and executioners until the last moment and, to remove their insane pleasure to witness his agony, he threw himself on the hook, uttering a final insult. The adventure ends in 1713 when, following a betrayal, he is arrested in a hostel of Valašská Dubová, and eventually tried, imprisoned and hanged on a hook in Liptovský Mikuláš castle. Worse, contemporary accounts describe him as a very cruel and violent character. Detail which is not the least: although the rich local gentry made its main target, he did not redistribute money to the poor. Jánošík did not hesitate to get rid of disturbing "employees" or rivals within his own clan, whose success led occasional machinations of all kinds. Many fictions put these scenes in the Tatras, but the band of Jánošík "haunted" more precisely the Malá Fatra and neighboring Choc Mountains. It is also said a hidden cave served as headquarters. It is often said that Jánošík always left his victims alive, although this detail does make unanimity (by "victim" we mean personalities, no matter about soldiers and so on !). They spread terror for years, robbing a large number of dignitaries, mostly Hungarians and Austrians, sometimes escorted, and the most often by ambush in the most rugged and impenetrable corners of the Carpathians.
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