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Klement Gottwald ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈklɛmɛnt ˈɡotvalt]; 23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czech communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953 – titled as general secretary until 1945 and as chairman from 1945 to 1953. He was the first leader of Communist ...
Zlín (in 1949–1989 Gottwaldov; Czech pronunciation:; German: Zlin) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 74,000 inhabitants. It has about 74,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Zlín Region and it lies on the Dřevnice river.
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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. The illegitimate son of a peasant, Gottwald was ...
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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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Klement Gottwald. * November 23, 1896 Dedice. † March 14, 1953 Prague. Communist politician and Czechoslovak President. Klement Gottwald was the illegitimate son of a poor peasant. Before the World War I he spent his apprenticeship as a future joiner in Vienna where he was active in the local working-class physical training movement and among ...
GOTTWALD, KLEMENT (1896–1953) BIBLIOGRAPHY. Czech politician and president of Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1953. Klement Gottwald was a prominent Czech politician, general secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPCz) from 1929 to 1945 and its chairman from the inception of the post in 1945 until 1953, prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1946 to 1948, and the country's president ...
Jan 5, 2009 · The residents of Zlín are commemorating 60 years since the city was renamed. They celebrated the end of 1948 as Zlín citizens but woke up in 1949 as the residents of Gottwaldov. The city was named after the first communist president of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald, on the order of high-ranking party members and the government and thanks ...
