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In the past, the Communist Party of Slovakia ( Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska -- KSS) was a communist party in Slovakia. It was formed in March 1939, when the WWII Slovakia was created, from the KSC. Although formally independent, it was led by the KSC leaders, who were in exile in Moscow during the war. When Czechoslovakia was established again, the KSS was still a separate party for a while ( 1945- 1948). On September 29, 1948, it was reunited with the KSC and continued to exist as a "organizational territorial unit of the KSC on the territory of Slovakia". Its (thus also Communist Slovakia's) main newspaper was the Pravda. It ceased to exist in 1990, when it was transformed into the independent Social Democratic party called the Party of Democratic Left. A new Communist Party of Slovakia was soon founded, however (see below).
The old KSS functioned solely as a regional affiliate of the KSC, not as an independent political institution. Therefore, the organizational structure of the KSS paralleled that of the KSC: The KSS party congress met for several days every five years (just before the KSC party congress), and it selected its central committee members and candidate members, who in turn selected a presidium, a secretariat, and a first secretary (i.e. party leader).
The most important first secretaries were Alexander Dubcek ( 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey – 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the) and Jozef Lenart ( 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January – 19881988 is a leap year starting on Friday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 2 Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.). Following the March 19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa party congress, the KSS Presidium consisted of 11 members; the Secretariat included, in addition to Lenart, 3 secretaries and 2 members; and the Central Committee comprised 95 full members and 36 candidate members. The KSS in 1986 also had its own Central Control and Auditing Commission, four other commissions, twelve party departments, and one training facility.