• Klement Gottwald's Second Cabinet was the cabinet and government of Czechoslovakia in office between 25 February and 15 June 1948. It was formed following...
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    Klement Gottwald (Czech pronunciation: [ˈklɛmɛnt ˈɡotvalt]; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the...
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    remaining president, Zdeněk Fierlinger becoming prime minister with Klement Gottwald as deputy primier. In the National Front coalition three socialist...
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    approach and order Gottwald to seize power. On 21 February 1948, twelve non-Communist ministers resigned in protest. They objected to Gottwald's refusal to stop...
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    refused, and was supported by Prime Minister and Communist Party leader Klement Gottwald. On 21 February, 12 non-Communist ministers (out of a total of 27 ministers)...
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    ministers resigned to protest Gottwald's refusal to stop the packing of the police with Communists despite the majority of the Cabinet having ordered it to end...
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  • Czechoslovak coup d'état, and Edvard Beneš inaugurated a new cabinet led by Klement Gottwald. Czechoslovakia was declared a "people's democracy" (until...
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    Václav Kopecký (category Recipients of the Order of Klement Gottwald)
    of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia during the leadership of Klement Gottwald. A high-ranking member of the party since the interwar era, he spent...
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    communist-dominated National Front government. The Communists under Klement Gottwald saw their position strengthened after the 1946 elections but Masaryk...
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    Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) led initially by First Secretary Klement Gottwald, held a monopoly on politics. Following the 1948 Tito–Stalin split...
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    Klement Gottwald, with the help of the Czechoslovak State Security personnel following the László Rajk trial in Budapest in September 1949. Klement Gottwald...
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  • Minister Klement Gottwald and appointed a Cabinet dominated by Communists. While it was nominally still a coalition, the "non-Communists" in the cabinet were...
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    Ludvík Svoboda (category Recipients of the Order of Klement Gottwald)
    all of the non-Communist cabinet ministers resigned in protest against the practices of Communist Party chairman Klement Gottwald and the other Communists...
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    financial irregularities. He previously served as minister of the Interior in cabinets of Miloš Zeman and Vladimír Špidla from 2000 to 2004. Gross was Member...
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    Samuel C. Cumming Paul de Smet de Naeyer Joseph Maria von Radowitz Klement Gottwald (1947) List of military decorations National Decorations System (Romania)...
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    even high into party ranks, and when a puzzled Rudolf Slánský and Klement Gottwald inquired what they could do, Stalin's NKVD agents arrived to help prepare...
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    installed to the office again. After the elections, as a chairman of the second strongest party (after the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) he became...
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    postpones Cabinet confirmation vote to next week". Reuters. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021. "Peru confirms new moderate-left cabinet". Al Jazeera...
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    Human Rights, Equal Opportunities and Legislation in Bohuslav Sobotka's cabinet, and at various points he has been Deputy Leader of ČSSD, a member of the...
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    publicly owned industries and established new administrative regions. Zeman's cabinet also attempted to change the electoral system to first-past-the-post voting...
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    close to the leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, led by Klement Gottwald. That is evident, for example, in 1943, when the Communists, in conjunction...
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    Democracy, becoming chairman of the party in February 2024. Jiří Paroubek's Cabinet Paroubek, Jiří. "Jiří Paroubek - Profil JP". Official website (in Czech)...
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    imprisoning political dissidents, particularly in the 1950s under Klement Gottwald. The conditions were often harsh and torturous for prisoners since...
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    also served as minister of Finance from 2002 to 2006. After forming the Cabinet of Vladimír Špidla in 2002, Sobotka was appointed Finance Minister. In...
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    Lazar Kaganovich Georgi Dimitrov Bolesław Bierut Valko Chervenkov Klement Gottwald Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Enver Hoxha Kaysone Phomvihane Khalid Bakdash...
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    Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party seized power in Russia in the...
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     Czechoslovakia: First Class of the Order of the White Lion Order of Klement Gottwald (1989)  Mongolian People's Republic: Order of Sukhbaatar  Soviet Union:...
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  • Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-Austrian jurist Klement Gottwald, first communist president Emil Hácha, president during the German...
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    200 cossacks left the palace and returned to their barracks. While the cabinet of the provisional government within the palace debated what action to...
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  • period. Klement Gottwald, leader of the Czechoslovakian communists had set up a rival Czechoslovak government in Moscow. In April 1945 Gottwald and Beneš...
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