Czechoslovakia · event 7 of 12

25 February 1948

The communist coup. The Communist Party, which had won 38 per cent in a free election two years earlier, takes complete power. Jan Masaryk, the foreign minister and son of the founding president, is found dead below his bathroom window two weeks later.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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