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Alexander Dubcek [1921-1992] Czechoslovakian
Rank: 107
Politician


Alexander Dubček was 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.

Independence



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Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.
101
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.
102
I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
103
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
104
We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
105
I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.
106
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
107
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. Independence
108
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
109
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.
110
For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
111

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