Lubomír Štrougal I government

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The Czechoslovak government Lubomír Štrougal I , led by Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal , was in office from January 28, 1970 to December 9, 1971. It succeeded the Oldřich Černík III government and was replaced by the Lubomír Štrougal II government .

Government formation, program

While in the tenure of the previous government, Oldřich Černík III, many reform supporters - with the exception of the reformer Oldřich Černík himself - of the Prague Spring were pushed out of the government team and replaced by new hardliners who were supposed to accelerate the ongoing process of normalization , it came with the establishment of Lubomír Štrougal as Prime Minister (who was to remain in office for 18 years) to the final, decisive phase of normalization. In 1970, extensive mass purges were carried out in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , in the course of which about 500,000 party members were expelled from the party, that is, about a third of them. In the ideologically and politically important areas such as media, culture or science, it was then 50 to 70 percent of the party members.

Štrougal's government secured these measures in non-partisan areas. At the same time, the federation principle originating from the Prague Spring was reassessed in favor of centralization, which manifested itself in the strengthening of the federal ministries vis-à-vis the government and the ministries of the sub-republics.

The Štrougal I government is often referred to as a continuation of the Černík III government or the Černík / Štrougal government, although not only some ministers were exchanged, but a new prime minister was also appointed. Nevertheless, the government has not issued a government statement of its own; the literature refers to the government statement of the Černík III government, which already mentions "right-wing anti-socialist forces" in connection with the Prague Spring.

Government composition

At the beginning of the government's term of office, some ministries were called committees (as before), the heads of which were then "Chairman of the Committee for ..." with ministerial rank; As of January 1, 1971, the committees were dissolved and renamed (federal) ministries, led by ministers.

The following ministers were in office for the entire regular term (January 28, 1970 to December 9, 1971) unless otherwise stated.

On January 1, 1971, the previous committees were dissolved and instead ministries were established with the following ministers:

Party affiliation

The government was formed from the unified list of the National Front , which consisted of the dominant Communist Party and bloc parties .

Governments of the constituent republics

Parallel to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the two partial republics ( Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic , both only from 1969) also had their own government:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Programové prohlášení vlády (Government Declaration ) of October 16, 1969, online at: www.vlada.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Website of the Government of the Czech Republic, Overview of the Government of Oldřich Černík III / Lubomír Štrougal I, online at: www.vlada.cz / ...

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  • www.vlada.cz/.../prehled-vlad-cr , website of the government of the Czech Republic, overview of the governments since 1918, Czech
  • Od Pražského jara do Revoluce 1989 , on: www.vlada.cz/.../historie , website of the Government of the Czech Republic, History of the Office of the Government, Czech
  • Zdenek Mlynar, Normalization in Czechoslovakia after 1968, in: Wlodzimierz Brus, Pierre Kende, Zdenek Mlynar: "Normalization Processes " in Soviet Central Europe , Research Project Crises in Soviet-Type Systems, headed by Zdenek Mlynar with a scientific advisory board, study no. 1, [Index] October 1982, [Cologne]

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