Eduard Benes1918
Masaryk and Benes found the Czech Republic
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Masaryk and Benes found the Czech Republic
Masaryk and Benes found the Czech Republic after the break up of the Austro
Establishes a provisional Government with the aid of the Russian liberation forces
Benes presided over a coalition Government involving Democrats and Communists, with the Communist leader Klement Gottwald as Prime Minister
The Benes decrees Decrees of the President of the Republic expropriated citizens of German and Hungarian ethnicity, and paved the way for the eventual expulsion of the majority of Germans to West and East Germany.
The Communists assumed complete power in a coup
Parliament, still dominated by the Communists, removes the article guaranteeing a leadership role to the Communist Party and Marxism as a state ideology from the Constitution
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