Klement Gottwald, vice primeminister of Czechoslovakia and a leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, declared that the new Czechoslovak state would be based on the equality of Czechs and Slovaks.
, president of Czechoslovakia, declared that the German and Hungarian minorities had to be expelled from his country.
All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deprived of their citizenship and subesquently expelled from the country.