Jihomoravský krajský výbor KSČ v Brně v letech 1968–1971. Od srpnové okupace k porážce reformních sil a „vítězství“ normalizačního režimu 2. část

The South Moravian Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Brno belonged since the early 60s to a very significant party body in which a reform movement gradually crystallized attempting to democratize not only the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Brno but also individual areas of social life, hence the whole Czechoslovak society. It was primarily a group of leading officials of the regional party committee headed by Chief Secretary Josef Špaček who realised the need of fundamental changes of the political system itself and in the spirit of greater democratization and openness to various social groups of the population. His efforts were crowned at least by a partial success mainly in the first half of 1968 when they succeeded to get through some reform steps into life despite many accumulated problems from the past twenty years of the communist government monopoly and at the cost of painful compromises. Promisingly developing reform movement within the South Moravian regional party organization and the regional committee was, however, forcibly closed in August 1968 by the arrival of the occupation forces to Czechoslovakia and a consequent standardization regime that not only negated the whole political development after January 1968, but also many of its first leaders were publicly gibbeted so that afterwards it transferred its interest to officers and members of all organs and components of the Communist Party, hence all the organs and organizations of political, public, social and economic life.