Word: klement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working class." The writers of the history textbooks did not even seem to know when the "New Era" began (i.e., with the Russian Revolution). And nowhere was there anywhere near enough attention paid to the life & works of Joseph Stalin or of his faithful servant, Czech President Klement Gottwald...
...days before, President Klement Gottwald, speaking to the Communist Party Central Committee, had charged that the party had been riddled with plotters for five years. In addition to Clementis, he named Marie Svermova, onetime second deputy secretary-general of the Czech party, and Otto Sling, former party political secretary for the Brno region...
...notable member of this inner circle is Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the party. Other members, according to the Times's Schmidt, are Bedrich Gemmder, contactman for the Cominform Defense Minister Dr. Alexej Cepicka, and National Security Minister Ladislav Kopriva. But Schmidt suspects it does not include President Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does not completely trust them.) The entire population is covered by a secret police network, fed by informers among the party members. Chief object...
...daughter can benefit a rising young Communist as well as a rising young capitalist. Out of the post of Czech Minister of Defense went General Ludvik Svoboda, career soldier. Into the general's former office moved 40-year-old Dr. Alexei Cepicka, son-in-law of President Klement Gottwald. Little known before 1947, Cepicka had married Gottwald's daughter after the Communists took over the government in 1948. As Minister of Justice, the President's son-in-law had masterminded a relentless, successful fight against the church...
...death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...