Alexander Dubcek

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

— Alexander Dubcek

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

— Alexander Dubcek

#iron #kind #lady #mrs #she

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

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

— Alexander Dubcek

#i #improve #lives #make #market

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

#army #arrival #comrades #conjecture #could

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

#committee #control #first #forces #me

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

— Alexander Dubcek

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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

#because #been #communal #cooperative #effective

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

#camps #deportation #extermination #internal #jews

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

— Alexander Dubcek

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