Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia (1948)
On the Refugee crises map as “The Prague coup”
Feb 1948 — The Communist Party takes full power in Czechoslovakia, and thousands flee west across the Bavarian border in the following years. Flight from communism now began to define the figure the West called a refugee.
- When
- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- 1951 Refugee Convention (chapter 5 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
- Also in
- Cold War
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