Jan Masaryk was the Czech Foreign Minister. When, just three years after his country was liberated from the Nazis, the Communists staged a military coup which removed the democratic government, he either committed suicide or was pushed out of a third-floor window.
https://twitter.com/Tonybirte/status/1500520859148206084
The investigation into his death lasted so long, it closed only last year: inconclusively. Murder and suicide were both considered possibilities.
Meanwhile, President Edvard Benes - President from 1935 to 1938, President-in-Exile from 1938 to 1945, President from 1945 to 1948 - was vilified by Soviet and Communist media following the coup.
Denounced as a 'traitor' by a shower of vermin, he died. Devastated by the ruin of his life's work.
What was that life's work? Democracy. Who destroyed it? Murderers, propagandists, spies and totalitarians.
The Czech people know their country's history. Do we?
What was that life's work? Democracy. Who destroyed it? Murderers, propagandists, spies and totalitarians.
The Czech people know their country's history. Do we?
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