Conflictos

La corta Primavera de Praga comenzó hace 50 años

El ‘socialismo con rostro humano’, que planteó Alexánder Dubcek, sucumbió ante la invasión de tropas y tanques del Pacto de Varsovia

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 25, 1968 shows Prague residents surrounding Soviet tanks in Prague as the Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia.
Fifty years ago, writers including Milan Kundera and a bizarre scandal helped spark a fleeting but heady spell of openness in communist Czechoslovakia before Soviet tanks rolled in to crush it. The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" to Czechoslovakia was personified by the smiling Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak who became Communist Party (KSC) chief on January 5, 1968. 
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(FILES) This file photo taken on August 25, 1968 shows Prague residents surrounding Soviet tanks in Prague as the Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia. Fifty years ago, writers including Milan Kundera and a bizarre scandal helped spark a fleeting but heady spell of openness in communist Czechoslovakia before Soviet tanks rolled in to crush it. The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" to Czechoslovakia was personified by the smiling Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak who became Communist Party (KSC) chief on January 5, 1968. / AFP PHOTO / STR
Residentes de Praga rodeaban tanques soviéticos, el 25 de agosto de 1968, durante la invasión del Pacto de Varsovia a Checoslovaquia.

Praga. Hace 50 años, el 5 de enero de 1968, Alexánder Dubcek, un singular dirigente del Partido Comunista checoslovaco, defendió el sueño tan bello como efímero de un “socialismo con rostro humano”, aplastado sin piedad por los tanques soviéticos.

Con su sonrisa encantadora, que tanto lo diferenciaba de sus camaradas comunistas, Dubcek, de 46 años, sustituyó al frente del partido (KSC) al dogmático Antonin Novotny, muy impopular en los círculos intelectuales de Praga y entre los eslovacos que reclamaban una mayor autonomía en el seno del Estado binacional.

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