Present-day university (since 1945) thumb|Façade of the modern entrance to Karolinum, the centre of Charles University Although the university began to recover rapidly after 1945, it did not enjoy academic freedom for long. After the communist coup in 1948, the new regime started to arrange purges and repress all forms of disagreement with the official ideology, and continued to do so for the next four decades, with the second wave of purges during the normalization period in the beginning of the 1970s.
Present-day university (since 1945) thumb|Façade of the modern entrance to Karolinum the centre of Charles University Although the university began to recover rapidly after 1945 it did not enjoy academic freedom for long After the communist coup in 1948 the new regime started to arrange purges and repress all forms of disagreement with the official ideology and continued to do so for the next four decades with the second wave of purges during the normalization period in the beginning of the 1970s