Alexander Dubcek Quotes

• We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

  Alexander Dubcek

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• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

• Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I’m expecting the worst for myself and I’m resigned to it.

  Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

• I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

  Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Alexander Dubcek

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

  Alexander Dubcek

• After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

  Alexander Dubcek

Alexander Dubcek (11)

Birth:	27th November, 1921
Death:	7th November, 1992
Nationality:	Slovakian
Profession:	Leader, Politician

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Alexander Dubcek was a Slovak politician and, briefly, leader of Czechoslovakia, famous for his attempt to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring. Later, after the overthrow of the government in 1989, he was Chairman of the federal Czecho-Slovak parliament. During the Second World War, Alexander Dubcek joined the underground resistance against the wartime pro-German Slovak state headed by Jozef Tiso. In August 1944, Dubcek fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wounded. His brother, Július, was killed. Dubcek died on 7 November 1992, as a result of injuries sustained in car crash that took place on 1 September on the Czech D1 highway, near Humpolec. He was buried in Slávičie údolie cemetery in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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