| Question 1: In 1953, he was sent to the ________ Political College, where he graduated in 1958. | |||
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| Question 2: Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Committee, so he secretly invited ________, the Soviet leader, to make a whirlwind visit to Prague in December 1967 in order to shore up the embattled Novotný. | |||
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| Question 3: During the Second World War, Alexander Dubček joined the underground resistance against the wartime pro-German Slovak state headed by ________. | |||
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| Question 4: The period following Novotný's downfall became known as the ________. | |||
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| Question 5: Later, after the overthrow of the ________ government in 1989, he was Chairman of the federal Czecho-Slovak parliament. | |||
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| Question 6: Alexander Dubček (27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992) was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia (1968–1969), famous for his attempt to reform the ________ regime (Prague Spring). | |||
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| Question 7: Dubček was born in Uhrovec, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), and raised in the Kyrgyz SSR of the Soviet Union (now ________) as a member of the Esperantist industrial cooperative Interhelpo. | |||
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| Question 8: His father, Štefan, moved from ________ to Czechoslovakia after World War I, when he refused to serve in the military for his pacifism. | |||
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| Question 9: In 1958 he also joined the Central Committee of the ________, which he served as a secretary from 1960 to 1962 and as a member of the presidium after 1962. | |||
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| Question 10: ________ (1948–1970) Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (1992) | |||
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