A smear campaign was launched in the country to correct the doctors' mistake made in relation to his already dead body. The fate of this politician was too difficult.
It's not bad if a person has a good role model. But if a whole country begins to blindly copy the experience of another state, everything becomes sad. Our hero himself overdid it, and taught his fellow citizens bad things.
Childhood
Life in the world of Maria Gottwald was sad. The girl lived in the Czech town of Vyshkov and from an early age earned her bread by hard peasant labor. In November 1896 she gave birth to a son, whom she gave the name Clement. The neighbors did not respect her much before, but now they began to express their contempt right in the face of the young mother, the unfortunate woman did not have a husband. The boy grew up not knowing his father, enduring ridicule from peers and contempt from more prosperous peasants.
In 1908, the teenager mastered the profession of a cabinetmaker and moved to Vienna to look for a better life. In the capital, there were enough people with such an education as his; a too young master was not interested in respectable customers. Leftist views were popular among the workers. Clement found them loyal and joined the Social Democratic Youth Movement.
Youth
Having only his fists to protect himself and the good name of his mother, the boy grew up strong and desperate. In 1914, he was even glad that he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. Gottwald was assigned to the artillery and hoped to make a career in the military. Instead of general's epaulettes, the soldier got a hard fate: he was wounded, then sent to fight against the Germans in Italy, and from there to Bessarabia. Disappointed in dreams of high ranks, the soldier surrendered to the Russians.
Confusion reigned in the enemy's camp. They, too, guessed that war was not a good thing. Clement met his associates among the Russians. Our hero did not take part in the October Revolution, he looked closely. In the fall of 1918, it became known that the new state of Czechoslovakia emerged from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Clement Grothwald immediately went home.
Political Struggle
The young country learned to live. Deputies were elected to the multi-party parliament from the most diverse forces in terms of ideology. The only criterion that guaranteed getting into government offices was patriotism. Clement Gottwald became a member of the Social Democratic Party. He was upset that this political force had lost its former revolutionary fervor, so in 1921 he organized the Communist Party with a group of comrades.
Participation in ideological battles did not prevent the young man from building his personal life. During the war, while dancing, he met a pretty girl, Maria Golubova, who worked as a maid. The young man was able to find her and achieve consent to become his wife. In 1920, the family was replenished with a daughter, who was named Martha. She will grow up and become like-minded people of her parent.
Takeoff and war
An experienced Bolshevik was entrusted with work related to the party press. He was the editor-in-chief of the newspapers Voice of the People and Pravda. In 1925, Clement Gottwald was introduced to the Central Committee of the party, which he headed two years later. The finest hour for the leftist activist came in 1929 - as a result of the elections, he was elected to the Parliament of Czechoslovakia. He presented his ideas from a high rostrum until 1938, when Hitler annexed part of Czechoslovakia and began to exert a strong influence on the country's government.
The leftist politician found refuge in the USSR. From Moscow, he led the communist underground in Czechoslovakia, making his contribution to the victory over fascism. He had experience since 1935. Gottwald headed the Comintern. In the Soviet Union, the Czech quickly found a common language with Joseph Stalin. Returning to his homeland after the defeat of the Third Reich, he wanted to imitate the famous leader.
Triumph
In 1945, Clement Gottwald became chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In the new government, he got the post of deputy prime minister, a year later - prime minister. Our hero carried out the nationalization of the economy in the country, taking the Soviet system as a model. Such reforms have found opponents in Parliament. Gottwald tried to deprive parliamentary mandates, first of dissidents, and then of his opponents within the Communist Party.
The scandal erupted in 1948. The MPs were asked to vote for a new version of the Constitution, which was introduced by Gottwald. The country's President Edward Benes not only criticized the document, but also resigned. This fact did not upset the daring communist leader. He himself was soon appointed to the first post of the state by the National Assembly.
Ungrateful heirs
The news of Stalin's death in 1953 shocked our hero. He visited Moscow to pay his last respects to his idol, returned to Prague and fell seriously ill. After 2 days, he died of aortic rupture. The doctors suggested that the old front-line soldier tried to cure the cold with alcohol, but his health could not stand it. In folk art, a legend arose that the people's favorite was poisoned by some enemies who had previously dealt with the Soviet leader in a similar way.
The body of the head of state was embalmed and exhibited in the mausoleum. It soon turned out that the work done to preserve the remains of Gottwald was of poor quality. They undertook to rectify the situation according to Soviet standards. In the biography of Gottwald, they found dark spots and declared him a tyrant and usurper. In 1962, fighters against the cult of personality were able to close the mausoleum and send a decomposing corpse to the crematorium.
