Word: vasile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems all too clear, however, that the noose has been tightening around Dubček's political neck. In recent weeks he has come under noisy attack from such hard-line extremists as Party Secretary Vasil Bilák, who denounced Dubček as a "weak man" and his reformist colleagues as "two-faced people." After months of rumors, the party paper, Rudé Právo, announced that Dubček had been suspended from party membership and that several leading reformists, including ex-National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky, had been expelled from the party. Though...
...distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition nor a general revenge." Yet no one can be too certain. The screening committee includes Alois Indra and Vasil Bilák, two of Czechoslovakia's most notorious collaborators with the Russians...