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Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubček
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) Socialist-bloc reform leader Czechia Slovakia 1921–1992 ↓ Removed 1969

He dreamed of a human face, and was posted to the forestry service

Before dawn on August 21, 1968, Soviet officers burst into Dubček's office. The phone lines were cut, handcuffs went on. 'We will kill, if necessary, a million Czechs, to put an end to your counter-revolution,' an officer said.

The Slovak reform communist who led the Prague Spring. Raised in the USSR from childhood, he abolished censorship in 1968 and pursued 'socialism with a human face', only to be deposed by the Warsaw Pact invasion and spend fifteen years as a forestry clerk. In 1989 he stood beside Havel on the balcony once more.

Career timeline
  • 1925–1938Raised in a worker family in the USSR
  • 1944Fights in the Slovak National Uprising
  • 1963–1968First Secretary of the Slovak party
  • 1968.01First Secretary of Czechoslovakia; the Prague Spring
  • 1968.08Taken to Moscow; forced to sign the protocol
  • 1969–1970Removed; ambassador to Turkey, then the forestry service
  • 1989.12Returns as chairman of the Federal Assembly
Scenes The Prague Spring — the menace of a human face