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Prague, The 5 January 1968, Alexander Dubček was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia from 1955 He was a signatory of the Warsaw Pact with the Soviet Union and other Soviet bloc countries. Pact that put the allies of the USSR in a State of subordination. DUBČEK was replaced by Antonín Novotný, associated with the Soviet Communist Party, kicking off at “new course”.
He began the spring of Prague. The new course that Dubček proposed to establish in Czechoslovakia was the realization of a process of democratization of the country. The realization of the “socialism with a human face”. This necessity reformist left from afar. In previous years had developed a certain discontent arising from an unsuccessful third five-year plan of conduction 1962. This caused a decrease in national income in the next year. To heighten the State of crisis was the knowledge that the guidelines set were dictated mostly by Moscow. This was the assumption that the production process was already a considerable retrenchment in the previous decade always to meet the needs of the country guide, the Ussr. This situation opened a split in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. A soul's filosovietica antagonizing fracture determined by and a reformer of Slovak mold. Also the question of Slovakia became ever more urgent since it emerged the lack of harmonisation between the Czech and Slovak team. The latter complained about a penalty at the economic level and an unfair political repression. This scenario favoured the entry of Alexander Dubček, former Secretary of the Communist Party of Slovakia. The reforms were essentially three aspects: introduction of forms of market and private initiative in certain areas; progressive demolition of censorship through an early form of freedom of the press and critics; greater protection of the person by the State Socialist. These actions were initially look at very carefully also by the same labor movement who feared a potential capitalist drift. But the road is the concrete participation of workers in the management of labour and economic planning. In the following months there was the abolition of censorship. It also followed the election in the factories of delegates no longer appointed from above. These acts led to concern in the USSR and other countries that threatened to intervene militarily. The danger of the Soviet invasion was decisive. Workers and students rallied around the reformist Government. Although Czechoslovakia was a reformist initiative led by representatives of politics and not a popular protest as occurred in 1956 in Hungary, He did not wait for the brutal reaction of the Soviet Union and freedom-. This repressive action did not produce the desired effects actually brought out most vulnerable aspects on which the USSR founded his mastery over the satellite States. The insane fear Soviet state of freedom of others.

Hector Parker

Peppino Impastato was born on 5 January 1948 in Cinisi, in the province of Palermo; He died at the age of thirty years for opposing and for denouncing the mafia system present in their territory. Peppino was a young man who refused to align with the conspiratorial climate in Sicily of the fifties and sixties, never accepted to be silent in front of the apparent corruption and mob clans in the province of Palermo conducted in areas of the province, never accepted to remain silent in the face of oppression and violence of the mafia against those who, few, dared to rebel, never accepted to lower his head and kiss the hand to the boss of the country, never accepted to consider lost his lonely battle for Justice, freedom and condemnation of the mafia. Peppino denounced the Mafia bosses, including that in your country, Don Tano Badalamenti, and the mafia attitude of his countrymen, Sicilians and anyone who while seeing, even knowing, turned his head to see, don't feel, not knowing, doing so the game Cosa Nostra. Peppino struggled every day to liberate their land from the mafia. I believe that everything you need to know about the life of Peppino Impastato is this. There is, However, a second biography that I would like to bring to light and that seems to bring together so many other boys, men and women, Magistrates, Commissioners of police, Police officers and men of the escort, died young at the hands of the mafia: Rosario Livatino (38), Calogero Skullcap (27), Roberto Antioch (23), Ninnì Carolina (38), Beppe Montana (34), Antonino Montinaro (30), Rocco Dicillo (30), Vito Schifani (27), Claudio Traina (27), Eddi Walter Cosina (31), Emma Lane (25) Fabio and Vincenzo Li Muli (22) and many others. They were United by the belief that the law should be good and evil mafia, only in their own land and among his people, considered to be deluded by defeating an opponent too strong and powerful, considered awkward to not stay in place, silent as everyone else. I like to remember Peppino and these guys in their 30s as people who courageously chose to say no to mafia, they've decided to stay on the good side in spite of evil was stronger, they chose to fight to change minds by their example, they breathed that “fresh scent of freedom” that made them free to refuse “the stench of moral compromise, the contiguity and therefore of complicity“. And’ Thanks to the sacrifice of Peppino that people had the courage to put up a poster that said that Peppino had not beaten and then killed himself, How brilliantly they had immediately reported the police and local press organs, but that Peppino's killers had a name: “Mafia”. And’ State thanks to the sacrifice of the young Sicilians Peppino had the courage to take action, even on the day of his funeral and mass scortarne the coffin, to take to the streets and to express openly its disagreement to the mobsters. Hundred steps separated the House of Peppino from him who made him kill, Don Tano Badalamenti. The boss of Cinisi did not understand ever Peppino, said it was getting more uncomfortable than dangerous, surrounded by a few friends harmless: Don Tano including only the day of the funeral of Peppino, When his order addressed to citizens of Cinisi not to participate was not heard, When he saw people in the streets to demonstrate against the Mafia, What was great Peppino and what he had been able to engage people without weapons, money or power, only with the force of his ideas of right and justice.
Hundred steps that grew from that day in thousands of young steps which still walking together to shout, How did Peppino, that the Mafia is a pile of shit.

Roberto Rossetti

The 3 January 1929 He was born in Rome Sergio Leone. Italian film director and producer. Son of art, his parents were film director Roberto Roberti (alias Marie Lamb) and l’ actress Bice Valerian (Edvige Valcarenghi alias). Raised in Trastevere, He studied a wide Roman humanity is then entered massively in his films. He was a great admirer of John Ford Westerns from which he obtained a precise semantic distance: the characters of John Ford gazed with hope the open spaces, Leone's characters were afraid to receive a bullet between the eyes. His first appearance back at the age of fourteen with his father, in the movie Mouth on the way. His second experience is by De Sica, where did the Assistant and played the part of a young priest in the film The bicycle thief. Afterwards he worked with directors such as Gallon, Dressing rooms, Soldiers, Bal, Comencini and De Sica. When Hollywood came to Rome to turn Peplum films (costumed stories taken from the Bible) He worked with directors such as William Wyler and Mervyn LeRoy. He directed the chariot race scene in Ben Hur. He collaborated on Quo vadis and other American films. This experience allowed him to develop a very personal style which was then imposed internationally. Great narrator for images, Lion could give thickness to the characters with the first few floors on looks. His rule was spectacular in every scene. A long shot and a first order were designed with the same attention. His first film as a Director was The Colossus of Rhodes. With the western A fistful of dollars and For a few dollars more gave evidence of manic scene composition. Made use of details often on weapons used by his characters, thighs of horses, the blatant zoom. Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento were the writers with him There was a time in the West. Movie The Good, the bad and the ugly was inspired by a film of Kurosawa Yojimbo. We can identify two Trilogies in his works, the first one of the dollar (A fistful of dollars, For a few dollars more, The good the bad and the ugly). The second trilogy time and memory (There was a time in the west, Keep your head down and once upon a time in America). Stanley Kubrick said that without the films of Sergio Leone would never made A Clockwork Orange. Quentin Tarantino elevates it to master and every movie is stuffed with Leonine quotes. Clint Eastwood was discovered by Leo in the television series Rawhide. Clint Eastwood's first film director to take an oscar was Unforgiven. Clint at the beginning of the film poses the inscription in honor of’ friend and teacher “to Sergio”. The partnership with Ennio Morricone, second only to the combination of Lennon and McCartney, made possible the development of a common element to film and music and transpose into film story masterfully, the time. A man who is told as gruff and serious in appearance, but good and thoughtful soul. Possessed sense of’ irony that mingled with the cynicism in an exceptional balance. His latest film Once upon a time in America developing a storyline that steeped in melancholy he tied his favorite themes: friendship, betrayal and memory. Crossing different genres detective noir psychological thriller and sentimental drama. The Melancholia that pervaded then anyone is passionate about cinema of Leo. Leaving us forever 30 April 1989 to those who love him still today one wonders what would “for some more Lion movies″.

Hector Parker