Word: according
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demurred that such a large Soviet garrison would leave little barracks space for the Czechoslovak army, Brezhnev replied: "We could use about 250,000 of your troops along the Chinese frontier." When Dubček tried to explain that his side had fulfilled the conditions of the first Moscow accord, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny ordered him to shut up. The Russians told the Czechoslovaks not to hope that outrage among the free world's Communist parties would deter the Kremlin from cracking down harder on Czechoslovakia. In the words of one Russian, "For the next 30 or 40 years...
Total Supremacy. Assembling in the castle's ornate white and gold Spanish Hall, the Deputies clearly understood that any resistance to their Soviet masters was senseless. Dubcek's regime had drafted a series of bills that fulfilled many of the demands of the Moscow accord. In that accord, the Soviet leaders had promised to ease their grip on the country as it returned to what the Soviets consider "normal." In quick succession, the National Assembly reimposed censorship on Czechoslovakia's press, revoked the right of assembly and association, abolished the small non-Communist political groupings that...
...diplomat, Kuznetsov outranks Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko. After assessing the situation, he reported to Moscow that things were not going as badly for the Kremlin as Chervonenko had made out. He said that Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda should be given a while longer to make good on the Moscow accord. As the Czechoslovaks did, in fact, fulfill the first part of the demands, the Soviets reciprocated by withdrawing the remainder of their 275,000 troops* from the cities into bivouac areas in the suburbs and countryside. Many Czechoslovaks feared that no matter how much they bent to Soviet will, some...
...ters pretty much where they stood after Cierna?except that Soviet tanks would still be in Czechoslovakia as enforcers of the agreement. There were even reports that the party bosses from Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Bulgaria might come to Moscow to give their endorsement to such an accord...
...unspoken, the assumption is often made that any agreement reached in Paris to end the Viet Nam war must also bring an end to the present government of South Viet Nam. Either it must be sacrificed to a larger coalition government as part of the price of an accord with Hanoi, so the reasoning goes, or it is certain to collapse from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues to go about...