Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other speech was by Czechoslovak Prime Minister and Communist Boss Klement Gottwald; it was filled with cynical distortions and unconcealed hate. Said he: "I can prove to you that Jan Masaryk clearly and without compromise agreed with the action program of the new government. . . . This was his unforgivable sin in the eyes of the enemies of the republic. We have seen for ourselves how the press of the West started an organized campaign against Jan Masaryk...
Prague was a city of fear, despair, and the dreaded swish of the iron brooms that Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had put in the hands of his action committees...
...Sixth Day. Said Gottwald: "If anybody thinks that an exchange of leaders is enough, and otherwise everything may remain as before, he is mistaken. .. ." The Communists proceeded to consolidate their victory. The Central Action Committee formally declared itself "the center of all public life." The purge of "negatively disposed" politicians, judges, editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova...
...week beginning March 7 (the anniversary of Thomas Masaryk's death) was proclaimed "Gottwald Week." The government proclaimed two days of veselice (general rejoicing) "to give the people a chance to express their gratitude." Flags were flown from all public buildings. Brass bands played in the streets for dancing. Movie houses stayed open all night and admission was free...
First of all, the Communist-dominated government does not represent the will of the people. Klement Gottwald, the Premier, spent the war in Moscow while the Czech government in exile in London was valiantly resisting Nazi aggression. He was one of the original signers of the abolition of the Comintern in 1943. Some of the other signers were Togliatti, Dimintrov, Pauker, Tito, Thorez, and all other Communist puppet leaders today...