Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Berlin's Republican Club, a New Left citadel, charged that "the concept of proletarian internationalism has been subordinated by the top leadership of the Soviet Union to a strategy of stabilizing and maintaining their own dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet...
...free to act because the U.S. is tied down in Asia. The U.S. had no such preoccupation in 1956 when the Russians moved with far greater savagery to suppress the Hungarian uprising. And the involvement in Viet Nam was insignificant in 1962, when the Russians sanctioned erection of the Berlin Wall. In all three cases, the only kind of effective U.S. response would have involved the threat of large-scale military action?and the probability of World War III. Few would argue that the stakes were worth...
...World War II-or the incredible kaleidoscope of 1945, which alone produced the defeat of Germany, Italy and Japan, the first atomic bombs and the United Nations, plus the deaths of Hitler, Mussolini and Roosevelt. And what subsequent year really compares with Cold-war 1948, when the Russians blockaded Berlin, took over Czechoslovakia (the first time), and bolted the Iron Curtain across Europe...
...once, the Communist and non-Communist worlds - and some countries that find themselves in be tween-joined in a general condemnation of Soviet force. The free world is accustomed to condemning Russian inroads and intransigence, from the brutal putdown of the Hungarian revolt to the erection of the Berlin Wall. In the past, most Communist countries and parties have either wholeheartedly supported such transgressions-or at least closed their eyes to them-but no longer. Last week, in one country after another, Communists found themselves on the side of the Czechoslovaks...
Though the Warsaw Pact countries that joined the Soviets in the invasion issued only official communiques of self-congratulation, their people clearly did not share that sentiment. In East Berlin, for example, hundreds of people flatly refused the demand of party workers to sign petitions in support of the intervention. Instead, they came to the Czechoslovak cultural center, where they left bouquets and bought, as some said, "souvenirs of Dubcek...