Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pleasing Peter. Adding to Communism's internal turmoil, the Czechoslovak episode naturally raises severe doubts in the free world about the course that Communism is taking. Ever since the cool-off after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, most people have felt that Soviet Communism, with its renewed stress on peaceful coexistence and the introduction of some capitalist-style economic reforms at home, was becoming less violent and more pragmatic. Indeed, such a development was taking place, though most Westerners optimistically overestimated the depth and impact of the new trend...
...their political purpose to do so. What was involved in Czechoslovakia was an expression of Russian nationalism and military power. Feeling endangered by a political threat and an unsafe border, the Soviets elected to violate their own principle of nonintervention. They thus prejudiced their position as world leader of Communism in order to secure the territorial integrity of what they must consider their European empire. Peter the Great would have done the same...
...conventional defenses is in order, and the U.S. must insist on foolproof surveillance clauses in any nuclear-arms-reduction treaty. London Historian Walter Laqueur points out: "As Soviet foreign policy becomes less Communist in character, it also becomes less predictable and rational. The ideological appeal of Soviet Communism no longer exists, but the Soviet Union still has built-in drives toward expansion...
...limousines. From them stepped Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, the ministers of his regime and 277 members of the National Assembly. Only a few months ago, these men had gathered in the historic castle to enact the reforms that started Czechoslovakia on its brief but exhilarating attempt to reconcile Communism with human freedoms. Now, under the threat of Soviet invaders, they came to dismantle their own democracy...
...ouster of Prime Minister Mohammed Yusuf, and two years later Yusuf's successor was forced to depart because of similar pressures. Even more disturbing was the indication that two leftist groups (one pro-Peking, the other influenced by Moscow) had played a role in organizing the unrest. Communism has had little or no appeal for the mass of Afghans, but the signs of even slight influence caused the government to tighten up a bill to allow the creation of political parties so as to exclude the Communists...