During the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he supported the Public against Violence and the Civic Forum. When Dubček appeared with Havel on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, he was greeted with uproarious applause from the throngs of protesters below, embraced as a symbol of democratic freedom. Dubček was elected speaker of the Federal Assembly on December 28, 1989, and re-elected in 1990.

At the time of the overthrow of Communist party rule, Dubček described the Velvet Revolution as a victory for his humanistic socialist outlook. In 1990, he received the International Humanist Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

Dubček died on November 7, 1992, as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash, that took place on September 1 on the Czech D1 highway, near Humpolec. He was buried in Slávičie údolie cemetery in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Dubček passively supported the union of the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia with Slovakia in a single, although federal, Czechoslovak state.

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See also

• Czechoslovakia: 1948 - 1968
• Prague Spring
• 1968 Red Square demonstration

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• Works by or about Alexander Dubček in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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