Andrej Sirácky

Andrej Sirácky (9 December 1900 – 29 September 1988) was a Slovak sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and communist official.

After graduating from the grammar school in Vrbas in 1921, he applied to study philosophy at Charles University in Prague, which he finished with a doctorate in 1926.

[1] During his studies in Prague, he met Slovak left-wing intellectuals and students and became a founding member of the DAV group.

After completing his studies, he returned home to Petrovac in Vojvodina, where he taught with a break at the Slovak gymnasium until 1941.

He was opposed to political liberalization in Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the Prague Spring, and in the following years, he held normalization positions and spoke out against "right-wing opportunism" within the party.