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...Novotný. Recently, an increasingly vocal opposition to his hardlining ways percolated right up to the innermost circles of the Communist Party. Last month the ruling Presidium voted 8-2 to fire Novotný as party chief, and only a hasty trip to Prague by Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev saved his skin...
...liberal forces throughout Eastern Europe. Novotný's fall reduces the number of outright Stalinist rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes would help them win more freedom at home and new friends...
...rule Russia today make a much more realistic assessment of American power than their predecessors, but they are divided over just how to deal with it-Brezhnev and Suslov being more militant than Kosygin and Podgorny. The Viet Nam war, of course, poisons U.S.-Soviet relationships. The Russians were originally willing to consider South Viet Nam as more or less within the U.S. sphere of influence, even though they regularly aided Hanoi. When the U.S. began intensive bombing of North Viet Nam in 1965, the Kremlin's line on the war swerved noticeably; Russia...
...Brezhnev and Kosygin are in agreement about liberalization in Russia, but Brezhnev takes ideology more into consideration and generally prefers a relatively tougher line. Kosygin is more practical and realistic and, though no liberal in the Western sense (both he and Brezhnev served time in Stalin's ca dres), is more or less looked to by the new intelligentsia as their best hope for further relaxation of party control. Suslov is more of a hardliner, while Podgorny has the strongest liberal tendencies of all. All four distrust the ambitious younger leaders, at whom they recently struck a blow...
...says State Department Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, "is between a mediocre public leadership and an increasingly talented society." Just as they have turned against ideology, the brighter young Russians are now reluctant to go in for a party career. In an otherwise routine and un interesting anniversary speech last week, Brezhnev went so far as to refer to his regime as Russia's "New Frontier." The use of the slogan of John F. Kennedy's Administration may have been more than a coincidence: many Russian youths are admirers of the late U.S. President...