People of the Revolution and the USSR
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
Background: Slovakia
The Cold War and decolonization 1945–현재
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GlossaryCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)
- Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952
- Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization'
- Vasil Biľak Vasiľ Biľak The party ideology secretary who signed the letter inviting Soviet tanks into his own country
- Alois Indra Alois Indra The KSČ hardliner who signed the letter inviting Soviet intervention to end the Prague Spring
- Alexander Dubček Alexander Dubček He dreamed of a human face, and was posted to the forestry service