"What has made this whole process so special is that above all - especially in terms of the pace of change – it has been determined by the creative and spontaneous activity of the broad mass of the people, with the communists in the vanguard. In this spirit and in accord with the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, people have acted without the slightest manipulation and without being given commands from above. The role of the party is to recognize people’s understanding, to raise it to a higher plane, to support progressive thinking and acts."
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Speech to a meeting of the 's outlining the reforms known as , April 1, 1968. Quoted in Alexander Dubček: hope and despair in 1968 (January 22, 2009) by David Vaughan, '
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