„Československo se jeví jako sovětský satelit.“
“Czechoslovakia Appears to Be a Soviet Satellite Country”.

Report from John H. Bruins, a US Embassy Counsellor, about the Political Strategy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from June 1947

Summary/Abstract: This document is a remarkable example of the observations made by an American diplomat concerning the situation in Czechoslovakia in spring 1947. Their author was John H. Bruins, a counsellor at the US Embassy in Prague. His report, dated 6 June 1947, covers the period from the June 1946 parliamentary elections until shortly before the negotiations on the Czechoslovak participation in the Marshall Plan in July 1947. This time was turning point, as a few months later the political struggle in Czechoslovakia began to escalate and shift towards the February 1948 coup. Even though the report is mainly focused on the communist policy in Czechoslovakia, it also provides a great deal of information about the society of the time.

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