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Soviet Union
Socialism With a Human Face: Alexander Dubček and the Prague Spring
January 5, 2022| Pete| 5347
The story of how radicals in Czechoslovakia tried to democratise Soviet rule It’s not often that Spring begins in January… But that’s exactly what happened in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968, when Alexander Dubček became – mouthful alert – First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Shot Dead in the Street
March 1, 2026| Pete| 260
The story of Olof Palme, Sweden's social democratic Prime Minister assassinated on this day in 1986.
The Cold War pressured smaller countries to ‘pick a side’ between the rival superpowers.
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