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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the demand for reform became overwhelming in 1966, the rigid regime of Antonin Novotný hesitantly began decentralizing the economy while trying to maintain tight political control. After Alexander Dubček rose to power in 1968, he added the vital ingredient of political freedom and adopted a series of reforms proposed by Economist Ota Sik. As Deputy Prime Minister under Dubček, Sik initiated far-reaching decentralization and began rapidly to modernize the economy, particularly in consumer industries that had suffered from decades of neglect. Sik also hoped to get $400 million in credits from the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE HIGH PRICE OF REPRESSION | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

Suicide for political reasons is hardly a novel idea in Czechoslovakia. At least a score of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotný's lieutenants took their own lives, usually by hanging, in the early days of Alexander Dubček's regime. Shortly after the Stalinist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, the Communists announced that Wartime Leader Jan Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A MESSAGE IN FIRE | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Behind the scenes, the Soviets were doing some hoisting of their own, as they elevated their men to power. They are prudently not promoting for the new posts outright Stalinists from the Novotný regime; instead, they prefer respectable, obedient bureaucrats. In Prague's current political argot, these men are called "the realists." The new federal Premier, for example, is Oldřich Černík, who was also Premier during the Dubček period but has since shown his willingness to cooperate with the Soviet occupiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Shifting Symbols | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...jockeying began with a rare and unpopular demonstration of pro-Soviet support, staged in a downtown Prague meeting hall by the Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Society. It drew some 3,000 middle-aged and elderly citizens, the rank and file of a hard-line group sometimes called the Novotný Orphans, in honor of Stalinist ex-Party Boss Antonin Novotný. With some 20 Soviet officers seated on stage, the crowd applauded wildly as Novotný's former foreign minister, Vaclav David, called for "an open fight against antisocialist forces." Meanwhile, outside the hall, some 500 younger Czechoslovaks waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Debate on the Future | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Drugged Confession. Wherever their curiosity led them, newsmen found evidence of direct Soviet meddling in Czech government affairs. A former Novotný security chief admitted to them that "26 Soviet advisers were active in all departments" of his secret police. The head of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia's Bratislava branch told them that the Russians had engineered his arrest in 1949, then drugged him to make him confess. The most explosive charge of all concerned the death of Czechoslovakia's last non-Communist leader, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, whose "suicide" was announced shortly after the Communists seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rise and Fall of the Free Czech Press | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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