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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.
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.
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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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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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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.
Dec 21, 2019 · Navrácení městu Gottwaldov jeho původní jméno Zlín bylo jedním z nejvýraznějších požadavků v revolučních dnech listopadu 1989 v tehdejším Gottwaldově. "Jméno Gottwaldov tady vlastně nikdy pořádně nezakořenilo, a když byla první příležitost, a to byly demonstrace po 17.listopadu, okamžitě to vyskočilo jako požadavek, takže na náměstí burácelo volání 'Až ...
GOTTWALD AND THE BOLSHEVIZATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1929-1939) BY H. GORDON SKILLING During the twenty years between the wars, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was forged as the instrument of eventual Communist rule in that country. In the first decade of its history the CPC was
