1953. The death of Clement Gotvald
Czechoslovak delegation with portraits of Gotvald and Stalin. Budapest, 1949. Photo: Bundesarchiv 65 years ago, March 14, 1953, Clement Gotvald, President of Czechoslovakia and the leader of the Czechoslovak communists, responsible for falsified processes over the "Bezrodny Cosmopolitans" in the late 40s and early 50s, died. Gotvald caught a cold at Stalin's funeral on March 9 and two days after returning from Moscow died of aorta rupture.