The Communist Party took full power in February 1948 and governed for forty-one years. In a bishop's city the pressure on the Catholic church was felt directly: religious orders were dissolved, seminaries closed, and church life was watched and restricted. At the same time the state decided what Nitra would be for. The agricultural university moved here in 1952 and a teacher-training institute followed in 1959; the surrounding villages were annexed to the city, panel-block estates rose at Chrenová and Klokočina, and the national agricultural fair filled a new exhibition ground every summer. By 1989 Nitra was a far bigger city than the one the Communists had inherited, and the whole country associated it with farming.Vo februári 1948 prevzala všetku moc komunistická strana a vládla štyridsaťjeden rokov. V biskupskom meste bolo tlak na katolícku cirkev cítiť priamo: rehole zrušili, semináre zatvorili a cirkevný život sledovali a obmedzovali. Zároveň štát rozhodol, na čo Nitra bude. Roku 1952 sa sem presťahovala poľnohospodárska vysoká škola, roku 1959 pribudol pedagogický inštitút; okolité dediny pripojili k mestu, na Chrenovej a Klokočine vyrástli panelové sídliská a celoštátna poľnohospodárska výstava každé leto zaplnila nové výstavisko. Roku 1989 bola Nitra oveľa väčším mestom, než aké komunisti prevzali, a celá krajina si ju spájala s poľnohospodárstvom.
