Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta...
by ptaipale on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:43PM
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>The thing is, that communists in 1948 really did win the elections.
Elections where the population was presented with a single list and where the police force and officials overseeing the election had been purged - both the army and police force were under Soviet-influenced Communist control. The only non-Communist minister, Jan Masaryk, was found defenestrated outside his office. (This was declared a suicide, but in 2004 Soviet archives indeed confirmed that he'd been thrown out of his window).
Elections where the population was presented with a single list and where the police force and officials overseeing the election had been purged - both the army and police force were under Soviet-influenced Communist control. The only non-Communist minister, Jan Masaryk, was found defenestrated outside his office. (This was declared a suicide, but in 2004 Soviet archives indeed confirmed that he'd been thrown out of his window).
In simpler terms, this is called coup d'état.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3...