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...happened last week. In the course of arresting a noted Soviet author, two carloads of tough KGB (secret police) agents stopped everything, piled out of their autos and waded into a field to pick bunches of wild lilacs. Dissidents may be tossed into prison or insane asylums under Leonid Brezhnev's regime, but this is repression with hearts and flowers...
Stoph's announcement reflected orders that he and Ulbricht received two weeks ago when they flew to Moscow to confer with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviets have just concluded five months of exploratory talks with the West Germans. The Russians, who hope to gain economic advantages from a deal with Bonn, do not want the East Germans to chill the diplomatic climate by breaking off contact at the very moment the Soviets are preparing to start negotiations with Brandt's government...
...liberation from Nazi Germany, it found itself occupied once again-by the country that "liberated" it in 1945. To compound its embarrassment, Czechoslovakia had to play host to the man who was ultimately responsible for ordering Russian invaders into the country in 1968: Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...first visit to Prague since the occupation began, Brezhnev brought along a high-powered Soviet delegation, including Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The Czechoslovak regime that succeeded exiled reformer Alexander Dubcek (see box page 29) seemed obsequiously anxious to prove just how far it had progressed toward "normalization." Prague was bedecked with Soviet as well as Czechoslovak flags. Brezhnev was heartily applauded in the elegant gold and white Spanish Hall of Prague's Hradcany Castle when he addressed a combined session of the Federal Assembly, the National Front and the Central Committee. All three bodies have...
...make sure that Czechoslovakia stayed liberated, Brezhnev brought with him a new 20-year Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship pact, even though the current document was not due to expire until 1983. The most important change was the formalizing of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which proclaims Moscow's right to "defend" any member of the Warsaw Pact against "military or revanchist forces." The treaty also calls for mutual military assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed...