Rudé právo
In autumn 1938, the party was abolished and during the German occupation and World War II that came soon afterwards the newspaper became an underground mimeographed pamphlet.Following the end of the war Josef Frolík became the chief administrator of the paper.[2] After the communist take-over in 1948 it became the leading newspaper in the country, the Czechoslovak equivalent of the Soviet Union's Pravda, highly propagandistic and sometimes obedient to the government.Following the Velvet Revolution, Rudé právo was privatised in 1989.[3] In addition, some editors founded a new daily, Právo, unaffiliated with the party but taking advantage of the existing reader base.