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Except those were all non-democratic puppet governments the Soviet Union had installed after WWII. Or maybe you believe communism is a form of democracy?
by woodandsteel 10y ago
Except those were all non-democratic puppet governments the Soviet Union had installed after WWII. Or maybe you believe communism is a form of democracy?
- vetinari 10y agoI was born in the Czechoslovakia. The thing is, that communists in 1948 really did win the elections. The people at the time really wanted communism. Just like in 1989 they wanted change for capitalism. Who knows, maybe in another 10-20-30 years they will want a change again. Should it be accompanied with a narrative, that the fall of Iron Curtain was a well orchestrated putsch to rob their countries?
- ptaipale 10y ago>The thing is, that communists in 1948 really did win the elections. Elections where the population was presented with a single list and where the police force and officials overseeing the election had been purged - both the army and police force were under Soviet-influenced Communist control. The only non-Communist minister, Jan Masaryk, was found defenestrated outside his office. (This was declared a suicide, but in 2004 Soviet archives indeed confirmed that he'd been thrown out of his window). In simpler terms, this is called coup d'état. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3...