Word: dechet
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Czechoslovakia, the hunters stalked the countryside for a new quarry: farmers who owned more than 50 acres of land. The new "class enemies" were packed off to forced labor; their land was confiscated. Prague also named a pro-Communist priest, Dean Jan Dechet, to administer the vacant bishopric of Banska Bystrica. The Vatican struck back by excommunicating Dechet...