For weeks Alexander Dubček has been the object of a secret struggle within the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia. The ultraconservative faction, led by Deputy Party Chief Lubomir Strougal ...
like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia’s current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews, a “cosmopolite.” The Communist organ ...
By Albin Sybera in Prague Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico accused Czech politicians and media of meddling with ...
Václav Havel, who would become the first democratically elected Czech president in 40 years, endured assassination attempts on his character. On national television, the Communist regime ...
of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In 1968, Czechoslovaks carry their national flag past a flaming Soviet tanker during the ...
Upon assuming the Czechoslovak leadership in January by becoming first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek quickly declared his intention to push ahead with ...
The protests in Czechoslovakia led to what is known as the Velvet Revolution. On November 28, 1989 the Communist Party announced the one-party state would be dismantled. Just over a month later ...
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has arrived in Prague to begin an official visit to the Czech Republic, aimed at strengthening ...