Ex-prime minister of Czechoslovakia died

The former Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia), who led the government of this country for more than 18 years, and one of the leaders in it in the power of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Lubomir Stroigal died at the age of 98.

This was reported by the news portal seznam.cz.

Strousal was the Czechoslovak prime minister from January 1970 to October 1988. His name is associated with the so -called normalization process – the suppression in the Republic of the Spirit of Democratic Transformations of the Prague Spring of 1968.

Strugal in the recent past was involved in the court in connection with the accusation of involvement in the orders of the Czechoslovak border guards to shoot to defeat in citizens who were trying to go to the west across the Czechoslovakia border.

He was exempted from liability in connection with the serious mental illness that he had suffered in recent years, the portal noted.