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14 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Antonín Janoušek Antonín Janoušek Czech journalist who chaired the Revolutionary Governing Council of the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919 Social movements and organizing · Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1877–1941
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 state institutions 1884–1957
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 state institutions 1891–1976
Václav Nosek Václav Nosek Czechoslovak interior minister whose purge of non-communist police in February 1948 triggered the government crisis and communist takeover Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1892–1955
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 state institutions 1896–1953
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert A poet who confronted censorship and power at each moment of reform Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1901–1986
Vladimír Clementis Vladimír Clementis Slovak Communist who succeeded Jan Masaryk as foreign minister and was executed after the Slánský trial of 1952 Diplomacy and international organization · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1902–1952
Gustáv Husák Gustáv Husák Czechoslovakia's longest-serving leader, who crushed the Prague Spring and built 'normalization' Political and party leadership · Czechoslovakia state institutions 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
Viliam Šalgovič Viliam Šalgovič The deputy interior minister who arrested Dubček and handed him to the Soviets Security, intelligence and policing · Czechoslovakia state institutions 1919–1990
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 state institutions 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 state institutions 1926–1987
Milan Kundera Milan Kundera The Czech novelist who insisted the Prague Spring was a universal attempt to reconcile socialism with freedom Literature and arts · Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) 1929–2023