Dubček

[ doob-chek; Czech doop-chek ]

noun

1. Alexander, 1921–92, Czechoslovakian political leader: first secretary of the Communist Party 1968–69.

Dubček

/ ˈduptʃɛk /

noun

1. DubčekAlexander19211992MSlovakPOLITICS: statesman Alexander (ˈaleksandə). 1921–92, Czechoslovak statesman. His reforms as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party prompted the Russian invasion of 1968

Example Sentences

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

Previous winners of the Sakharov award include Nelson Mandela, Alexander Dubček, Aung San Suu Kyi and Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani campaigner for female education who barely survived a Taliban assassination attempt.

From The Guardian

Alexander Dubček, the leader of the then Czechoslovakian communist party, thought he could allow freedom of speech, democratisation – all the forbidden fruits – while remaining a part of the Soviet empire.

From The Guardian

On August 20th and 21st, 1968, fifty years ago this week, hundreds of thousands of Soviet and allied Warsaw Pact troops poured over the Czechoslovak border from surrounding countries in a massive show of force that quickly deposed the government of Alexander Dubček.

From The New Yorker

As the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Czech Communist Party, Dubček had presided over a short-lived experiment in Communist liberalization known as the Prague Spring.

From The New Yorker