Klement GOTTWALD - Antonin ZAPOTOCKY - Viliam

Czechoslovak President K.Gottwald talks to Czechoslovak Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky (2nd from right) and his deputy Viliam Siroky (1st from right). In the middle is Zdenek Fierlinger and (in the background 1st from left) Rudolf Slansky, General Secretary of the Communist party. At Pragues Wilson Station, August 26, 1949. Only two years later, when Fierlinger and Slansky became unconfortable to the governmet, their images were erased from this photograph. This practice which was adopted from Soviet Union made person disappear and sometime reappear in Communist controlled press. CTK Vintage Photo / Jiri Rublic

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Adopted Antonin Controlled Disappear Erased Fierlinger Gottwald Jiri Klement Pragues Reappear Retouched Rublic Siroky Slansky Sometime Viliam Zapotocky Zdenek

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