On 25 February 1948 the Communist Party under Klement Gottwald took full power in Prague, and Czechoslovakia became a one-party state for the next forty-one years. What that meant arrived in Slovakia quickly. Private farms were forced into cooperatives and farmers who refused were prosecuted; shops and workshops were nationalised; the western border was sealed, wired and mined. In April 1950 the men's monasteries were emptied in a single night and the monks interned, and the Greek Catholic Church — the church of much of the north-east — was declared abolished at a staged assembly in Prešov and its property handed to the Orthodox Church; its bishop, Pavel Peter Gojdič, died in prison in 1960. The show trials reached the top of the party too: the Slovak communist Vladimír Clementis was executed in 1952, and Gustáv Husák was jailed for 'bourgeois nationalism'.Dvadsiateho piateho februára 1948 prevzala v Prahe komunistická strana Klementa Gottwalda plnú moc a Česko-Slovensko sa na ďalších štyridsaťjeden rokov stalo štátom jednej strany. Čo to znamená, prišlo na Slovensko rýchlo. Súkromné gazdovstvá nahnali do družstiev a tých, čo odmietli, stíhali; obchody a dielne znárodnili; západnú hranicu uzavreli, oplotili a zamínovali. V apríli 1950 vyprázdnili počas jedinej noci mužské kláštory a mníchov internovali a gréckokatolícku cirkev — cirkev veľkej časti severovýchodu — na zinscenovanom zhromaždení v Prešove zrušili a jej majetok odovzdali pravoslávnej cirkvi; jej biskup Pavol Peter Gojdič zomrel vo väzení roku 1960. Vykonštruované procesy dostihli aj vrchol strany: slovenského komunistu Vladimíra Clementisa roku 1952 popravili a Gustáva Husáka uväznili za „buržoázny nacionalizmus“.
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