Editing Normalization (Czechoslovakia) (section)

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In the [[history of Czechoslovakia]], '''normalization''' ({{langx|cs|normalizace}}, {{langx|sk|normalizácia}}) is a name commonly given to the period following the [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]] in August 1968 and up to the ''[[glasnost]]'' era of liberalization that began in the Soviet Union and its neighboring nations in 1987. It was characterized by the restoration of the conditions prevailing before the [[Prague Spring]] reform period led by the First Secretary [[Alexander Dubček]] of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]] (KSČ) earlier in 1968 and the subsequent preservation of the new ''[[status quo]]''. Some historians date the period from the signing of the [[Moscow Protocol]] by Dubček and the other jailed Czechoslovak leaders on 26 August 1968,<ref>"'Normalization' (Normalizace)", in ''Historical Dictionary of the Czech State'', by Rick Fawn and Jiří Hochman (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) pp. 173–174.</ref> while others date it from the replacement of Dubček by [[Gustáv Husák]] on 17&nbsp;April 1969, followed by the official normalization policies referred to as [[Husakism]]. The policy ended either with Husák's removal as leader of the Party on 17&nbsp;December 1987, or with the beginning of the [[Velvet Revolution]] on 17&nbsp;November 1989, which would see the resignation of the entire Communist Party leadership within a week and an end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.