Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predicting unemployment, inflation and other hardships from Dubcek's reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik, 46. fA are liberals of the Dubček stripe...
...happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
...bale of printed matter over the Rhine and sank an enemy ship. I now recognize the effectiveness of your propaganda." During the cold war, when Jackson was active in a project to launch propaganda balloons over Czechoslovakia, he reported dreaming that he himself was floating over Czech territory with "svoboda" (freedom) lettered on his trousers...