Word: strougal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prominent among the realists is Lubomir Strougal, 44, a longtime associate and former Interior Minister of Stalinist Party Boss Antonin Novotny...
Though he went along with enough of Duběek's liberal plans to win a government post as Deputy Premier this year, Strougal shrewdly managed to drop out of sight after the invasion, obviously playing for time in his new choice of loyalties. Whether or not those loyalties now belong fully to the Russians, he fared very well at the Central Committee meeting. He not only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority...