Ripka says: "Had the Sudeten Germans remained in Czechoslovakia. in all likelihood. the Communist Party would have found strong support among the Sudeten Germans." In fact. the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans was carried out at a time when only and exclusively communization measures were executed in Czechoslovakia by the promoters of communism. including Ripka. Ripkas pushing of the expulsion was only a part of his overall activities on behalf of communism. It was the Communist agent Wolfgang Putlitz who. in Ripkas office in London. elaborated the details of the deportation of the Sudeten Germans during World War fl. It was Josef Stalin. who in an interview given to the Prague Communist daily Rude Pravo. in September 1945. said: "Get rid of the Germans and expel them." And it was the Communist Zdenek Pierlinger. at that time Czechoslovak Prime Minister. who said on November 8. 1945. in a speech at Prague: "We redress the defeat at the White Mountain (again this false interpretation common to Ripka and the Communists) by a state act. by the expulsion of all Germans from our country. this happened with the consent of our Government. We never would have been able to purge our country from the ill weeds. were there not the prominent assistance of the brotherly Soviet Union and the great Generalissimo Stalin." Although Ripka was Minister of the National Front government which carried out the expulsion. the Prime Minister of this government was a Communist. There are plenty of press clippings of Czechoslovak Communist papers in our possession which prove that its main promoters were the Czechoslovak Communists. who bought most A2708 of the adherents by distributing and collectivizing the Sudeten German property. They were. of course. most eagerly followed by the politicians and papers of the Benes party. The kind of promoting the deportation of the Sudeten Germans was analogical to other communization efforts: Communists like Zapotocky and Gottwald led. but were closely followed by men such as Ripka. Benes. Zonkl. and Lettrich.
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