66 years ago: #Czechoslovak coup d'état: 64-year old Edvard #Beneš (fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention) "capitulated"; he accepted the #resignations of the non-Communist ministers and appointed a new government in accordance with #KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) demands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat !history