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| 1967 |
| | | Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes president of the State Council of Romania | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek becomes first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party, following pressure for reform from party intellectuals | |
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| 1968 |
| | | New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Moscow imposes Gustav Husak as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the brief to reverse Dubcek's reforms | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris | |
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