The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw Pact.
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Despite being an ardent Marxist he began moves towards introducing a multiparty political system and, on 1 November 1956, announced Hungary’s withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and its status as a neutral country.
Dubček replaced Novotný as the leader of Czechoslovakia on 5 January 1968 and quickly began to introduce a series of political and economic reforms known as ‘socialism with a human face’.
On June 16th 1958, Hungarian Communist politician Imre Nagy was executed.
On the 5th January 1968, the Prague Spring began when Alexander Dubček became the new First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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