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Murder or Suicide? The Cold War Death of Jan Masaryk. A Buffs in Brief special
In March 1948, Jan Masaryk, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and son of the country's founding president, was found dead beneath the window of the Foreign Ministry in Prague.
Was it suicide?
Or was it murder ordered by Stalin’s agents?
Masaryk’s death came just weeks after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and many across Europe saw it as the moment when any lingering hope of democracy in Eastern Europe finally died.
In this episode of History Book Buffs – Buffs in Brief, Antonia West and Roger Moorhouse explore:
• The Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948
• Stalin’s strategy…
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