People of the Revolution and the USSR
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
Citizenship: Czechoslovakia
Background: Czechoslovakia
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GlossaryCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
- Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover
- Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform
- Josef Pavel Josef Pavel Prague Spring interior minister whose security reforms were undermined by KGB subversion and internal betrayal
- František Kriegel František Kriegel The only Prague Spring leader who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol
- Jiří Hájek Jiří Hájek A diplomat who turned international law into a language of civic rights
- 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
- Zdeněk Mlynář Zdeněk Mlynář A reform communist who sought to democratize socialism