Men from the Kysuce were called up into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914 and sent to Galicia, Serbia and Italy, and the valley lost them in numbers it could not afford. On 2 June 1918 Slovak soldiers stationed at Kragujevac in Serbia refused to be marched back to the front and mutinied; the revolt was crushed and men were court-martialled and shot. Kysuce men were among them — eight from Kysucké Nové Mesto paid with their lives, and Vincent Čimbora of Krásno nad Kysucou was executed there. It was the clearest sign yet that the loyalty holding the empire's Slovak regiments together had run out. Five months later the empire was gone.Mužov z Kysúc odviedli v roku 1914 do rakúsko-uhorskej armády a poslali do Haliče, Srbska a Talianska; dolina ich stratila v počtoch, ktoré si nemohla dovoliť. Druhého júna 1918 sa slovenskí vojaci v srbskom Kragujevci vzopreli rozkazu vrátiť sa na front a vzbúrili sa; vzburu potlačili a mužov postavili pred vojenský súd a postrieľali. Boli medzi nimi aj Kysučania — osem mužov z Kysuckého Nového Mesta to zaplatilo životom a Vincent Čimbora z Krásna nad Kysucou tam bol popravený. Bol to najjasnejší dôkaz, že vernosť, ktorá držala slovenské pluky monarchie pokope, sa minula. O päť mesiacov nato monarchia zanikla.
