When Klement Gottwald, the first Stalinist leader of Communist Czechoslovakia, was elected to the Czech National Assembly in 1929, this is what he said in his first speech in front of the assembly:
"And we are the party of the Czechoslovak Proletariat and our supreme chief of staff is indeed Moscow. We go to Moscow to learn, do you know what? We go to Moscow to learn from the Russian Bolsheviks how to wring your necks. And you know that the Russian Bolsheviks are masters in this respect… That grin will be wiped off your faces!"