Czechoslovakia withdrew from the tournament when it became obvious that their President, Klement Gottwald, was going to die from pneumonia he contracted at Stalin's funeral.
Zmiiv, a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, was named Gotvald after him during the years 1976 to 1990.
Klement Gottwald | Siegfried Gottwald | Łukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald |
Kundera also describes a photograph from 21 February 1948, where Vladimír Clementis stands next to Klement Gottwald.
In the famous photograph from 21 February 1948 (the story is described in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera), Vladimír Clementis stands next to Klement Gottwald, who later, after a coup d'état, became the President of Czechoslovakia.