>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

>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...