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Protestors chanted for this leader to go “to the Castle” almost 20 years after this leader was forced into being a forestry official. Under this leader, former political dissidents formed into Klub 231 and the KAN party. This leader’s policies were critiqued by a manifesto titled “The Two Thousand Words” and involved a Constitutional Act that split his country into two federations. This Esperanto speaker brought in Ota Šik (“oh-tah shik”) and other political (15[1])opponents of (*) Antonín Novotný to execute his “Action Programme.” A period instigated by this leader witnessed the self-immolation of the student Jan Palach (“yawn pah-lock”) in Wenceslas Square. The hardliner Gustav Husák (10[1])replaced this leader after a 1968 (10[1])Soviet invasion. “Socialism with a human face” was the slogan of, for 10 points, what Slovak reformer who began the Prague Spring? ■END■

ANSWER: Alexander Dubček (“DOOB-chek”)
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