What is Alexander Dubček?, Explain Alexander Dubček, Define Alexander Dubček

~~~ Alexander Dubček ~~~

Title: What is Alexander Dubček?, Explain Alexander Dubček, Define Alexander Dubček
Created on: 2018-08-21
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Description: Alexander Dubček was a Slovak politician who served as the First secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from January 1968 to April 1969. He attempted to reform the communist government during the Prague Spring but was forced to resign following the Warsaw Pact invasion in August of 1968. During his leadership under the motto of the "Socialism with a human face" the Czechoslovakia lifted censorship on media and liberalized the Czechoslovak society which fuelled the New Wave in filmography. However, he was pressured by the Stalinist voices inside the party and Soviet leadership who disliked the direction the country was heading and feared Czechoslovakia could loosen ties with the Soviet Union and become more westernized. As a result of that the invasion of the Warsaw Pact countries on 20–21 August 1968 effectively ended the process known as the Prague Spring. He resigned in April 1969 and was succeeded by Gustav Husák who initiated normalization. Dubček was then expelled from the Communist Party in 1970. Later, after the overthrow of the communist regime 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.

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