Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:08:09 +0200https://english.radio.cz/us-diplomacy-and-czechoslovak-communist-coup-detat-1948-a-story-naivete-and-8166753© 2026 Radio Prague International Seventy years ago the new Czechoslovak government was fully in the hands of the Communists. After the Stalinist coup d'etat in February 1948, a wave of arrests started and all democratic opposition was suppressed. Unclassified documents of the US Department of State show the degree of naïveté with which the American diplomats and intelligence officers in Prague faced their communist opponents and the subsequent shocking realization that there was nothing they could do. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/stalin_gottwald.jpg?timestamp=1704189031 https://english.radio.cz/us-diplomacy-and-czechoslovak-communist-coup-detat-1948-a-story-naivete-and-8166753 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9