Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubčekwas a Slovak politician and, briefly, leader of Czechoslovakia. He attempted to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring but he was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Later, after the overthrow of the government in 1989, he was Chairman of the federal Czechoslovak parliament. Also in 1989, the European Parliament awarded Dubček the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 November 1921
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demanded economic independence managerial private program service thorough
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
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In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
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Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
adoption clearly exclude freedom law press proclaimed program proposed return
The program proclaimed a return to freedom of the press and proposed the adoption of a press law that would clearly exclude prepublication censorship.