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He was the first leader of Communist Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953. [1] Following the collapse of democratic Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement, the right-wing leadership of the Czechoslovak Second Republic banned the Communist Party, forcing Gottwald to emigrate to the Soviet Union in November 1938.
From 1949 to 1989, the city was renamed Gottwaldov after the first communist president of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald. On 1 January 1990 the city's name was changed back to Zlín. Geography. Zlín is located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of Brno. The Zlín agglomeration also includes the town of Otrokovice.
Gottwaldov was created in 1948 through a merger of several communities surrounding Zlín, a 14th-century village that had grown rapidly after World War I. The consolidated town was named for Klement Gottwald, the first communist president of Czechoslovakia. In 1990 Gottwaldov as a whole was renamed Zlín.
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Klement Gottwald (born Nov. 23, 1896, Dědice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died March 14, 1953, Prague, Czech.) was a Czechoslovak Communist politician and journalist, successively deputy premier (1945–46), premier (1946–48), and president (1948–53) of Czechoslovakia.
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Před 70 lety, u příležitosti narozenin prezidenta Klementa Gottwalda, které měl 23. listopadu, padlo rozhodnutí, že Zlín bude přejmenován na Gottwaldov. Od 1. ledna 1949 tak nesl jméno prvního komunistického prezidenta, který se necelý rok před tím chopil veškeré moci v zemi. Krystal a vrchol zlínského funkcionalismu.
Nov 1, 2022 · Abstract. This chapter examines the impact on Gottwaldov (Zlín) of political, economic and social developments in Czechoslovakia after 1968. The first part offers a short overview of the growth of the city before 1968. The next part examines a local istory of the ‘consolidation’ period after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
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As of 1945 until his death he held the post of chairman of the Czechoslovak CP. On May 26, 1946 the Communists won essentially democratic elections and on July 2 Gottwald became Prime Minister. From 1945 to 1947 he posed in the role of a judicious statesman and builder of the Republic.
