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March 10, 1948 - Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk Found Dead
Dressed only in his pajamas, Jan Masaryk was found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. Masaryk's death on this day in 1948 remains a great mystery for many historians.
The Communist government "officially" announced that the Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister had committed suicide, though many believed, and many still do believe, that the non-Communist minister was actually murdered.
Soviet Bloc intelligence officier Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the United States in 1978, claimed that Jan Masaryk was on a list of ten international leaders the Kremlin killed or tried to kill during that era.
Jan Masasryk was a formidable foe and impediment to the post war expansion of the USSR's Communist empire in eastern and central Europe. The Soviet Union fought to impose a Communist government on the smaller country of Czechoslovakia, while Masaryk insisted that it should remain a democracy.
Quote for ToDay:
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland
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