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Jakeš, Miloš

Head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the time of the Velvet Revolution. He replaced Gustáv Husák as General Secretary in December 1987. His resignation on November 24, 1989, along with that of the other members of the Central Committee Presidium, was one of the decisive events of the Velvet Revolution.

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