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Dubcek

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Dubček (Czech) [ˈduptʃɛk]
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(Biographies / Dubček, Alexander (1921-1992) M, Czechoslovak, POLITICS: statesman) Alexander (ˈaleksandər). 1921-92, Czechoslovak statesman. His reforms as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (1968-69) prompted the Russian occupation (1968) and his enforced resignation. Following the uprising of 1989 he was elected chairman of the new Czechoslovak Federal Assembly
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That is because the central question in the eight months between the appointment of Alexander Dubcek as first secretary of the Czechoslovak communist party at the start of January 1968 and the overnight arrival of 500,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops on August 21 of that year was less geostrategic than political.
40 years on, the left is yet to grasp the eclipse of socialism by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Imre Nagy, the leader of the Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Dubcek became parts of their national legends, which belies the claim that communism was exclusively a foreign imposition.
From the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
In private, Dubcek and his wife, Anna, express their fears.
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