Antonín Josef Novotný

Antonín Josef Novotný (10 December 1904 – 28 January 1975) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardlineer, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968.

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