| When an ideology lies to its children, some of them turn against it and destabilize it from within. That is what Alexander Dubcek did. He was a Communist out of idealism to start with, but in the end he was one of those who buried Communism. After the war he was an important party member. Then came the Prague Spring, in which he participated and with which he identified himself. He stood up to Soviet tanks, but they removed him from power and put him into political quarantine, brushed aside and isolated from his people and from international opinion. When the Eastern bloc crumbled overnight, this man whose changing destinies lock him into the history of our times returned to the world stage. Now Chairman of the Assembly in Prague, Dubcek, who might have stepped out of a historical saga, is once again playing his part in world events. |
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