whose only short-term result was the federalism espoused by NAME Husak, who made an alliance of convenience with the hardliners.
Jan Palach set himself on fire to protest the failure of this movement, whose only short-term result was the federalism espoused by NAME Husak, who made an alliance of convenience with the hardliners. The attempted revival of the Social Democratic party, the churches, and the Boy Scout movement frightened the country's neighbors, but it was the publication of Ludvik Vaculik's "Two Thousand Words" manifesto in the Literary Gazette that spurred them to action.  Despite the conference of Warsaw Pact leaders at Cierna-nad-Tisou in Slovakia, tanks were sent to repress this move toward "socialism with a human face," an initiative of Alexander Dubcek.  FTP, name this short-lived 1968 season of liberal reform in the Czech capital.
Jan Palach set himself on fire to protest the failure of this movement,
the Prague spring