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Alexander Dubcek was the Czechoslovakian Party Chairman in 1968. He sought to slightly democratize and liberalize in order to regain popular support for Communism. He never sought to leave the Eastern Bloc, merely reform it into something more palatable and less dystopian. IOTL his reforms set off the Prague Spring which was met with Soviet invasion. What if/How can he be successful in reforming Czechoslovakian politics and could these reforms spread throughout the Soviet bloc? Could this be the first step in a democratized socialism rather than the authoritarian bureaucracy IOTL?