Word: gottwald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Czechoslovak party boss, Klement Gottwald, was a harsh ruler. He nationalized the country's entire industry, including even small artisans' shops, collectivized all farms, and subjected the people to a withering succession of arrests, show trials and executions of "Titoists" and "traitors." Fittingly, Gottwald caught a chill at Stalin's funeral in 1953 and died a few months later. An almost equally unbending Stalinist took his place: Antonin Novotny, who had been Communist boss of Prague. As the slight winds of liberalism blew throughout the East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best...
Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs...
...judged by the location of corpses and symbols. After the 22nd Communist Party Congress voted last October to remove Joseph Stalin from the Red Square tomb he shared with Lenin, Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announced a similar assault on the cult of personality. Stalin ist Klement Gottwald, who led the party to power in 1948 (and died in 1953 of pneumonia and pleurisy contracted at Stalin's funeral) was to be moved from his mausoleum. But visiting Prague last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Ball discovered no change. Gottwald, face serene, skin unlined, waxen hands folded peacefully, still...
Party spokesmen insist that the topic is still under discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer...
...Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried out a political execution that Stalin himself would have appreciated...