1968 – 1969Prague Spring, tanks, and the one reform that survivedPražská jar, tanky a jediná reforma, ktorá prežila
SlovakiaSlovensko
In January 1968 the Slovak communist Alexander Dubček became the country's leader and tried to make the system bearable: censorship lifted, the victims of the 1950s rehabilitated, 'socialism with a human face'. Moscow watched for eight months. On the night of 20–21 August 1968 the armies of the Warsaw Pact invaded, some 200,000 troops in the first wave; in Bratislava soldiers fired on crowds and a young woman, Danka Košanová, was shot dead. Twenty years of 'normalisation' followed — reformers expelled from the party, hundreds of thousands pushed out of their jobs, Dubček himself ending up working for a forestry enterprise. One reform did survive, because Moscow saw no harm in it: the constitutional law adopted on 27 October 1968 turned the state into a federation of a Czech and a Slovak republic from 1 January 1969, and the Greek Catholic Church was allowed to exist again in the same year.V januári 1968 sa slovenský komunista Alexander Dubček postavil na čelo štátu a pokúsil sa systém urobiť znesiteľným: zrušil cenzúru, rehabilitoval obete päťdesiatych rokov, hovorilo sa o „socializme s ľudskou tvárou“. Moskva to sledovala osem mesiacov. V noci z 20. na 21. augusta 1968 vtrhli do krajiny armády Varšavskej zmluvy, v prvej vlne asi 200 000 vojakov; v Bratislave strieľali vojaci do ľudí a mladá žena Danka Košanová pritom zahynula. Nasledovalo dvadsať rokov „normalizácie“ — reformátorov vyhodili zo strany, státisíce ľudí prišli o prácu a sám Dubček skončil ako zamestnanec lesného závodu. Jedna reforma však prežila, lebo Moskve neprekážala: ústavný zákon prijatý 27. októbra 1968 zmenil od 1. januára 1969 štát na federáciu českej a slovenskej republiky a v tom istom roku smela znova existovať aj gréckokatolícka cirkev.
Prague Spring, tanks, and the one reform that survivedPražská jar, tanky a jediná reforma, ktorá prežila
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