1918 – 1938 A Czechoslovak prison, doing the same jobČeskoslovenská väznica, tá istá práca

In 1918 the fortress passed to Czechoslovakia and went on doing exactly what it had done under the emperor. By then the word Leopoldov no longer named a place in ordinary Slovak so much as a sentence, and it still carries that meaning. The town outside stayed small: a few streets of railwaymen's and warders' houses on a grid that military engineers had drawn before anyone lived on it.Roku 1918 pripadla pevnosť Československu a robila presne to, čo predtým. Slovo Leopoldov vtedy v bežnej reči už neoznačovalo ani tak miesto ako trest — a v tomto význame sa používa dodnes. Mesto za hradbami zostalo malé: pár ulíc domov železničiarov a dozorcov na pravidelnom pôdoryse, ktorý nakreslili vojenskí inžinieri skôr, než tu ktokoľvek býval.