People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Milada Horáková Milada Horáková
Czech politician who resisted both the Nazis and the Communists and was hanged in 1950 after a fabricated treason trial
Social movements and organizing
1901–1950
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Jan Patočka Jan Patočka
A phenomenologist who turned care for truth into civic action
Scholarship and theory
1907–1977
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František Kriegel František Kriegel
The only Prague Spring leader who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1908–1979
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Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek
A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights
Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions
1913–1993
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Ludvík Vaculík Ludvík Vaculík
The Czech writer who declared 'not one human question has been solved in twenty years' and authored the 'Two Thousand Words' manifesto
Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1926–2015
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Zdeněk Mlynář Zdeněk Mlynář
A reform communist who sought to democratize socialism
Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
1930–1997
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Václav Havel Václav Havel
Czech playwright-turned-president whose absurdist theater critiqued the regime and whose dissident leadership ended communist rule
Literature and arts
1936–2011