Alexander Dubcek

Politician

1921-11-27 – 1992-11-07

Alexander Dubček was a Czechoslovak and Slovak politician best known for leading the Prague Spring reform movement in 1968. His program sought political liberalization within a socialist system. He remained a major symbolic figure in Czechoslovak democratic change.

Quotes by Alexander Dubcek

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.
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For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
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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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