page_title: National Front (Czechoslovakia)
section_title: Other civil organizations
hierarchical_section_title: National Front (Czechoslovakia) / Other civil organizations
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: volební plakát 1960
context_page_description: The National Front was the coalition of parties which headed the re-established Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1948. During the Communist era in Czechoslovakia it was the vehicle for control of all political and social activity by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. It was also known in English as the National Front of Czechs and Slovaks.
context_section_description: After the 1948 coup, the  National Front was converted into a broad-based patriotic organization that controlled nearly all organized activity in the country, excluding only religion.  Thus the Front was extended to include mass organizations that were not political parties.  Among the other member organizations which were made full members were:
  Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (to which all unions belonged)
  Socialist Union of Youth (1.5 million members)
  Union for Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship
  Czechoslovak Union of Women (1 million members)
  Czechoslovak Red Cross
  Union of Agricultural Cooperatives
  Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters
  Svazarm (Union for Cooperation with the Army)
  National Peace Committee
  Physical Culture Association
  Union of Philatelists
  All these groups were given the standard Communist organization, and Party members held all controlling positions in these, even as they did not send elected deputies to parliament. This ensured that no secular organization could exist in the country that was wholly independent of KSČ leadership.  These groups permeated workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. As with the Front, many of these organizations added Czech and Slovak regional components in 1969 and after.
caption: Electoral poster for the 1960 Czechoslovak election included individual candidates preference voting
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