19h 57min, nov 28, 1944 y - Czechoslovakian communists seize power in the last Eastern European democracy.

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"In February 1948…Stalin approved a plan by Czechoslovak communists to seize power in the only Eastern European state that had retained a democratic government. Shortly after the coup, the broken body of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk – the son of Thomas Masaryk, the founder of the country after WWI – was discovered in a Prague courtyard: whether he jumped or was pushed has never been established…any independence within Stalin’s sphere of influence, it appeared, had perished with Masaryk." (Gaddis 2006, p. 33).

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