Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Kennedy's offer to save the nation from disaster amused me for its consummate conceit, disturbed me because his proposals are nothing more than an offer of surrender to Hanoi and Communism. Perhaps the Senator would do well to curtail his efforts to embarrass our President and spend some time studying contemporary history, vis a vis what results from a freely elected government's invitation to the local Communist party to join a coalition government. It is unfortunate that this very minor talent is so totally blinded by personal ambition...
...merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia, Dubček has planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well...
...signed petitions supporting Dubček, deluged government offices, radio and TV stations with calls, and even marched in the streets. Because it offers a socialist form of democracy so far unequaled anywhere in the Communist world, Czechoslovakia's revolution may have a far more lasting impact on Communism than either Tito's breakaway from the Kremlin or the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. "It lies upon us, on Czechs and Slovaks," says Forestry Minister Josef Smrkovský, "to enter courageously into unexplored terrain...
...been established to rehabilitate the thousands of victims of the Stalinist purge trials of that period. Church and clergy are fast being freed of restraints, and the Communists' phony religious front organization, called the "Peace Priests," is disintegrating. Last week the Czechoslovaks even had their first strike under Communism. Workers at an electrical-appliance factory in Pisek walked out in complaint against management-and did not come back until the manager signed a resolution to reform...
Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs...