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Democratic backsliding in Czechoslovakia | HearLore
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Democratic backsliding in Czechoslovakia
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'étatIn 1945, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia counted just 40,000 members. By early 1948, that number had swelled to 1.35 million.
Warsaw Pact invasion of CzechoslovakiaIn the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia began a slow process of de-Stalinization under Antonín Novotný. This change moved much slower than in other Eastern Bloc…