People of the Revolution and the USSR
Czechoslovakia state institutions
Citizenship: Czechoslovakia
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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- Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald
- Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953
- Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia
- Jan Garrigue Masaryk Jan Garrigue Masaryk The non-Communist foreign minister who lent Gottwald's government legitimacy, found dead under Černín Palace window two weeks after the coup
- Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs
- Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover
- Hubert Ripka Hubert Ripka Postwar foreign trade minister who resigned in February 1948 and went back into exile
- Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
- Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952
- Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal
- Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer
- Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization'
- Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights
- Viliam Šalgovič Viliam Šalgovič The deputy interior minister who arrested Dubček and handed him to the Soviets
- Ota Šik Ota Šik Czechoslovak economist who designed a 'third way' between plan and market
- Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika
- Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end