Elective Affinities

Overview

Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would end with the military intervention of the Warsaw Pact.

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Ludvík Svoboda

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Oldřich Černík

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Alexander Dubček

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Antonín Novotný

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Josef Smrkovský

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