In late February 1948, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia through a coup d'état. It marked the beginning of fo
Portraits of Klement Gottwald and Joseph Stalin at a 1947 meeting of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The slogan reads: "With Gottwald we won, with Gottwald we shall complete the Two-Year Plan"