Dubček takes the helm
1968 · Event
The Czechoslovak party quietly replaces its Stalinist first secretary with a mild Slovak apparatchik nobody in the West has heard of. Alexander Dubček proves to be something new: a communist who actually believes the system can be humane — and who lets the reformers around him begin to prove it.
On these timelines: The Prague Spring, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Cold War, Master
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- The Moscow Protocol (1968)
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