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13 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The philosopher-president who organized the Czechoslovak Legion from exile and signed the Penza Agreement with the Bolsheviks Political and party leadership 1850–1937
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
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
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
František Kriegel František Kriegel The only Prague Spring leader who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1908–1979
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
Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization' Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia 1913–1991
Vasil Biľak Vasiľ Biľak The party ideology secretary who signed the letter inviting Soviet tanks into his own country Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1917–2014
Alois Indra Alois Indra The KSČ hardliner who signed the letter inviting Soviet intervention to end the Prague Spring Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1921–1990
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
Zdeněk Mlynář Zdeněk Mlynář A reform communist who sought to democratize socialism Political and party leadership · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1930–1997