Mrs Dubcek Quotes & Sayings

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. — Alexander Dubcek

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything ... I can only conjecture what could have happened. — Alexander Dubcek

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher. — Alexander Dubcek

Who would have predicted ... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable. — Dan Quayle

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. — Alexander Dubcek

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. — Alexander Dubcek

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier. — Alexander Dubcek

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness. — Alexander Dubcek

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism. — Alexander Dubcek

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. — Alexander Dubcek

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring. — Alexander Dubcek

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. — Alexander Dubcek

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face. — Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face. — Alexander Dubcek

I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of post-graduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics. — Vaclav Klaus

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. — Alexander Dubcek