Speech to Berlin’s SPD on the putsch in Czechoslovakia, 12 March 1948

Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahme Willy Brandts 1949, der vor einem Mikrofon steht.
© Willy-Brandt-Archiv im AdsD, Bonn/Heinrich Reuber

In front of social democrats from both parts of Berlin, Willy Brandt condemns in highly acerbic language the communist upheaval in Czechoslovakia. He states that German social democracy is struggling against terroristic Soviet communism and advocates a liberal democratic socialism.
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