 Complete the following phrase:  On 22 February 1948, nearly all of the non-Communist cabinet ministers resigned in protest against the practices of Gottwald and the other Communists. Svoboda was one of the few who remained in office. The Communist-dominated Revolutionary Trade Union Movement voted uimously to replace the 12 departed ministers with pro-Communist ministers. As armed workers and the Peoples Militias took to the streets, Svoboda refused to quell the insurrection with military force, saying the army will not march against the people. Two days later and one day after a general strike in which 2.5 million citizens participated, President Edvard Beneš gave in to growing pressure from Gottwald and appointed a government dominated by Communists and pro-Soviet Social Democratsin effect, giving legal sanction to 