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14 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Edvard Beneš Edvard Beneš The last democratic president, who tried to topple a government with resignations and instead handed it to Gottwald Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1884–1948
Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953 Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1957
Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1884–1975
Jan Garrigue Masaryk Jan Garrigue Masaryk The non-Communist foreign minister who lent Gottwald's government legitimacy, found dead under Černín Palace window two weeks after the coup Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia 1886–1948
Zdeněk Fierlinger Zdeněk Fierlinger Pro-Soviet Social Democrat and first post-liberation premier who sided with the Communists in 1948 and merged his party into theirs Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1891–1976
Hubert Ripka Hubert Ripka Postwar foreign trade minister who resigned in February 1948 and went back into exile Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia 1895–1958
Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda A national hero of two world wars who became an unlikely last bastion of the Prague Spring Military command · Czechoslovakia 1895–1979
Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1896–1953
Antonín Josef Novotný Antonín Novotný The Czechoslovak leader whose Stalinist orthodoxy was swept aside by the Prague Spring reform movement Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1904–1975
Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1911–1974
Ota Šik Ota Šik Czechoslovak economist who designed a 'third way' between plan and market Economy, finance and planning · Czechoslovakia 1919–2004
Oldřich Černík Oldřich Černík The miner's son and technocrat who led the Prague Spring government, then signed the Moscow Protocol under duress Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1921–1994
Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika Government and administration · Czechoslovakia 1924–2023
Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1926–1987