People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The philosopher-president who organized the Czechoslovak Legion from exile and signed the Penza Agreement with the Bolsheviks
- Antonín Zápotocký Antonín Zápotocký Czechoslovak Communist who led the trade-union central council, became prime minister after February 1948 and president in 1953
- Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia
- 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
- Klement Gottwald Klement Gottwald The communist leader who turned Czechoslovakia into a people's democracy through the February 1948 coup
- Josef Smrkovský Josef Smrkovský The purge victim who returned to become the Prague Spring's most eloquent reformer
- Lubomír Štrougal Lubomír Štrougal Husák's right hand who ran the normalization cabinet for eighteen years, then fell backing Gorbachev's perestroika
- Pavel Auersperg Pavel Auersperg The ideology cadre who drafted the Action Programme, then served normalization to the end