Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubček (November 27, 1921 -- November 7, 1992) was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969), famous for his attempt to reform the Communist regime (Prague Spring). Later, after the overthrow of the Communist government in 1989, he was Speaker of the federal Czechoslovak parliament.

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[bobek3x]

btw..do you know what he did a year after he failed with his policies? he passed a law that all demonstrations against the regime should be pressed by the police or army in a violent way..a so called pendrekový zákon law..thanks to that, 3 people died

[Mesherschmit]

You have no idea what kind of pressure was there .

[tokyoconan]

Does anyone know the title of this song?

[Mesherschmit]

The title of this song is Morituri te salutant and the name of the singer is Karel Kryl.

[BLYSK4753]

nie jestem czeskiem ale zawsze mialem do

pana aleksandrowi wielkie respekt bylem w bratyslawie na cmetarzu gdzie jest jego grobu

zawsze takze zapamietamy jego usmiech

troche smutny. niektore polakow oraz czechow

trakuja go jako kommunista ale ja nie ..

poniewaz mysle ze bylo naprawde ucziwy

chcial naprawde tworzyc jakiego ludzkiego

socjalismu ,tak mysle;;;

tak mi se wydaje.pan aleksander zostaje w zazdym razie w moim serdcu na zawsze jako bohaterem.

[fred13400II]

Dubcek wasn't a stalinian but a reformer communist, probably close to swedish social-democrats. And Kundera's affair isn't very simple to consider.

[antostagan]

@thetrailbrake

@thetrailbrake

Hello Socialism without democracy is not socialism. Communism without freedom is not communism... It is time to return to the origin of those words and ideas, and stop calling "communists" the bureaucrats and rulers that were in fact impostors, the political regimes which were sad caricatures of bourgeois revolutions. Dubcek was a commy in the true sens of the word. Communism is still a good hypothesis about human history...

[suetamluciano]

linda música  e que historia

[thetrailbrake]

Wasnt dubcek more of a democratic socialist than a commy?

[traplican]

@Mesherschmit I Kriegel byl pod tlakem a jediný z "moskevské delegace " nepodepsal. Zachoval si tvář. Na to musí být žaludek, podepsat zákon umožňující mlácení a persekuci lidí, kteří signatáři věří a skandují jeho jméno ... Teda, ne že by Kriegel byl nějaký svatoušek (v roce 1948 byl velitelem lidových milicí v Praze), ale v roce 1968 a po něm se aspoň zachoval jako chlap.

[antostagan]

@hectorbolchevik

The greatest marxist is History itself.  It showed that Leninism led to Stalinism. Dubcek, as a true marxist, wanted to empower civil society so that it follows its own developpement as it is possible in the hegemony of capitalism: maybe this would lead to another Sweden. But that's human history. Communism can only come from a highly developed capitalism, showing contradiction between the potential for human liberation and the confinement of this potential by capitalism.

[hectorbolshevik]

@antostagan: How was Leninism a bad idea? It was implementation of Marxism. Alexander Dubcek was just another Stalinist bureaucrat. A liberal Stalinist but still a Stalinist. The whole concept of "Socialism with a human face" was to remove the most unpopular elements of Stalinism in Czechoslovakia while still preserving the power, privelages, and rule of the Stalinist bureaucracy. He later demonstrated his Stalinist sell-out trait when he joined Vaclav Havel's counter-revolutionary goons in 1989

[countryflor]

Herzlichen Dank für dieses Video.! A. Dubcek hat mit seinen Ideen und seinem Mut den Weg zur Demokratie in Osteuropa eröffnet. Danke auch für den Song von Karel Kryl!

[elatedhoschi123]

my last name is alsobnDubček

[antostagan]

Mesherschmidt thank you, to keep the memory. History shows that Leninism was a very bad idea. To be brief, I would say that Karl Marx himself was foremost a democrat, he had never agreed with this idea of a vanguard party who lead on behalf of the people ... Anyway for me Alexander Dubcek was a great man, who deserve the name of communist ... And Karel Kryl is a great poet, great singer.