''Rudé právo'' ( Czech for ''Red Justice'' or ''The Red Right'') was the official

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of the

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History and profile

''Rudé právo'' was founded in 1920 when the party was splitting from the social democrats and their older daily ''Právo lidu'' (). During the 1920s and 1930s it was often censored and even temporarily stopped. In autumn 1938, the party was abolished and during the German occupation and

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that came soon afterwards the newspaper became an underground mimeographed pamphlet. Following the end of the war Josef Frolík became the chief administrator of the paper. After the communist take-over in 1948 it became the leading newspaper in the country, the Czechoslovak equivalent of the

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's '' Pravda'', highly propagandistic and sometimes obedient to the government. Its Slovak equivalent in

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was '' Pravda''. Following the Velvet Revolution, ''Rudé právo'' was privatised in 1989. In addition, some editors founded a new daily, '' Právo'', unaffiliated with the party but taking advantage of the existing reader base.

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Digital archive (1945–1950)

Digital archive (1950–1989)

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of ''Rudé Právo'' (1945–1997) via . {{DEFAULTSORT:Rude Pravo 1920 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1990 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia Communist newspapers Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Czech-language newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Czechoslovakia Eastern Bloc mass media Newspapers published in Prague Newspapers established in 1920 Publications disestablished in 1990

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