In the prelude to this event, protesters at the Writers Union Congress replaced Antonin Novotny with Ludvik Svoboda.
In the prelude to this event, protesters at the Writers Union Congress replaced Antonin Novotny with Ludvik Svoboda. During this period, farmers were allowed to form independent cooperatives and legislators and regained the ability to vote freely, and in protest of the end of this period, Jan Palach lit himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in the namesake city. This period included the Action Programme and was ended at the Bratislava Conference by Brezhnev, and it attempted to install "socialism with a human face." For 10 points, name this 1968 liberalization effort led by Alexander Dubček ("DUB-chek"), which ended when Soviet troops marched into the capital of Czechoslovakia.
In the prelude to this event, protesters at the Writers Union Congress replaced Antonin Novotny with Ludvik Svoboda.
Prague Spring [or Praské jaro; or Praská jar]