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Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author; noted for The Two Thousand Words which inspired the Prague Spring (born 1926)
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Ludvík Vaculík
Czech writer and journalist (1926–2015)
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
The Two Thousand Words
Czech manifesto
"The Two Thousand Words" is a manifesto written by Czech reformist writer Ludvík Vaculík. It was signed by intellectuals and artists on June 17, 1968, in the midst of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that began in January 1968 with the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Prague Spring
Liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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