Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia on January 5, 1968, replacing hardliner Antonín Novotný and beginning the short period known as the Prague Spring of major political liberalization, economic reform, and increased freedom of speech and the press. It quickly came to an end when the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invaded on August 21, 1968, to crush the reforms.
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