When Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 the village dropped its landlords' name and became simply Uhrovec. On 27 November 1921 Alexander Dubček was born in the very building in which Štúr had been born, by then divided into flats. His parents were idealists: in 1925 the family left by train from Žilina with the Interhelpo cooperative, a group of Czechoslovak workers who went to help build socialism in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, and Alexander grew up in Pishpek, today's Bishkek. They moved on to Gorky in Russia and came home only in November 1938 — the month after Munich, so the boy returned to a country that was already coming apart.Keď v roku 1918 vzniklo Československo, obec odložila meno svojich zemepánov a stala sa jednoducho Uhrovcom. Dvadsiateho siedmeho novembra 1921 sa v tej istej budove, v akej sa narodil Štúr, vtedy už rozdelenej na byty, narodil Alexander Dubček. Jeho rodičia boli idealisti: v roku 1925 odišla rodina vlakom zo Žiliny s družstvom Interhelpo, so skupinou československých robotníkov, ktorí šli budovať socializmus do sovietskeho Kirgizska, a Alexander vyrastal v Pišpeku, dnešnom Biškeku. Neskôr sa presťahovali do Gorkého v Rusku a domov sa vrátili až v novembri 1938 — mesiac po Mníchove, takže chlapec sa vracal do krajiny, ktorá sa už rozpadávala.
