After Gottwald
He was succeeded by Antonín Zápotocký, the Premier of Czechoslovakia from 1948–1953.
In tribute, Zlín, a city in Moravia, now the Czech Republic, was renamed Gottwaldov after him from 1949-1990. Zmiiv, a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, was named Gotvald after him during the years 1976 to 1990.
Námestie Slobody (Freedom square) in Bratislava, Slovakia had formerly been named Gottwaldovo námestie after him. A bridge that is now called Nuselský Most in Prague was once called Gottwaldův Most and the abbuting metro station now called Vyšehradská was called Gottwaldova.
In 2005 he was voted the Worst Czech in a ČT poll (a programme under the BBC licence 100 Greatest Britons). He received 26% of the votes.
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