The friendly relations between Social Democrats and communists that had existed right after the liberation soon disappeared and the old fronts from before the war started to re-emerge. The Danish communists became the target of public disdain once more with the onset of the Cold War and the Czechoslovak communist coup in 1948 combined with new purges and trials in the Soviet Union and its new Eastern European satellite states. Larsen once more showed himself to be a defender of the Soviet Union.