Dubček
Americannoun
noun
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Early in the year, the country’s conservative leader Antonín Novotný was replaced by Alexander Dubček.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He covered the Prague Spring, in 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the Dubček reforms, and his pictures of the armed, hard-faced occupiers singing and dancing in Prague spoke for themselves.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
After a tense meeting with a worried Brezhnev in Čierna nad Tisou, near Czechoslovakia’s border with the Soviet Union, in late July, Dubček failed to warn the population that an invasion might be imminent.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2018
He cautioned that he had seen similar signs of a thaw after reformer Alexander Dubček had become president in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2016
When Czechoslovakia split into two nations in 1992, Dubček became head of the Social Democratic Party in Slovakia.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
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