Miroslav Štěpán

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Miroslav Štěpán (born August 5, 1945 in Louny ; † March 23, 2014 in Prague ) was a Czech politician from Komunistická strana Československa (KSČ).

Life

Štěpán was an agricultural engineer by profession. During normalization , Miroslav Štěpán was secretary of the city committee of the SSM , the youth organization of the KSČ, from 1974 to 1977 . Since 1986 he has been a leading functionary of the City Committee of the KSČ in Prague , then since 1986 a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . Miroslav Štěpán was also the leader of the Lidové milice ( People's Militia ).

He is credited with the decisions that led to the crackdown on the demonstrations in 1988 and 1989, including that on November 17, 1989.

As a result of the so-called Velvet Revolution , Miroslav Štěpán was forced to resign from office at the end of November 1989. In December 1989 he also gave up his seat in the Federation Assembly. On December 5th he was expelled from the KSČ. After he was detained and sentenced to two and a half years, he was released from prison in October 1991.

Since its re-establishment in 1995, he has been the general secretary of Komunistická strana Československa (1995 to 1999 Strana československých komunistů ), which refers to the teachings of Marx , Engels, Lenin and Stalin .

In 2004 Miroslav Štěpán led the KSČ delegation (1995) to the Congress of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union , which was chaired by Gennady Zyuganov . In an interview for the editorial team of the Czechoslovak Communist , Štěpán accused the KPRF and KSČM of betraying communist ideals and starting the counter-revolution . Miroslav Štěpán denied these parties the communist character.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Czech KP hardliner Miroslav Stepan has died
  2. ↑ Závěrečná zpráva vyšetřovací komise Federálního shromáždění pro objasnění událostí 17. listopadu 1989, část III. 2) - Úloha mocenských orgánů, (cit. May 9, 2009). Available online
  3. ↑ a b Rozhovor redakce Československého komunisty / JISKRY s generálním tajemníkem KSČ soudruhem M. Štěpánem ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in German: Conversation between the editorial team of the Czechoslovak Communist and the General Secretary of the KSČ, Comrade M. Štěpán @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksc.cz
personal data
SURNAME Štěpán, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician (KSČ)
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Louny
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2014
Place of death Prague