People of the Revolution and the USSR
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
Citizenship: Czechia
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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GlossaryCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
- Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring
- Rudolf Slánský Rudolf Slánský KSČ General Secretary who organized the February 1948 coup and built Czechoslovakia's people's democracy as its operational architect
- Antonín Josef Novotný Antonín Novotný The Czechoslovak leader whose Stalinist orthodoxy was swept aside by the Prague Spring reform movement
- Alexander Dubček Alexander Dubček He dreamed of a human face, and was posted to the forestry service
- Oldřich Černík Oldřich Černík The miner's son and technocrat who led the Prague Spring government, then signed the Moscow Protocol under duress