However, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia rapidly increased in popularity, with a general disillusionment with the West, because of the pre-war Munich Agreement, and a favourable popular attitude towards the Soviet Union, because of the Soviets' role in liberating Czechoslovakia from German rule.
Con todo, o Partido Comunista aumentou rapidamente en popularidade, debido á desilusión xeral con Occidente polos Acordos de Múnic da preguerra, e unha actitude favorable cara á Unión Soviética, debido ao papel dos soviéticos na liberación de Checoslovaquia do réxime alemán.