Question

Protestors chanted for this leader to go “to the Castle” almost twenty years after this leader was forced into being a forestry official. Under this leader, former political dissidents formed into Klub 231 (-5[1])and the KAN party. This leader’s policies were critiqued by a manifesto titled “The Two Thousand Words” (-5[1])and involved (15[1])a Constitutional Act (-5[1])that split his country into (-5[1])two federations. (15[1])This Esperanto speaker brought in Ota Šik (“oh-tah shik”) and other political opponents (-5[1])of (*) Antonín Novotný to execute his “Action Programme.” (10[1])A period instigated (10[1])by this leader witnessed (10[1])the self-immolation of the student (-5[1])Jan Palach (-5[1])(“yawn pah-lock”) in (10[1])Wenceslas Square. (-5[2])The hardliner Gustav Husák replaced this leader after a 1968 Soviet invasion. “Socialism with a human face” was the slogan of, for 10 points, what Slovak reformer who began the Prague Spring? (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: Alexander Dubček (“DOOB-chek”)
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