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...approval, Husák declared that "anti-socialist forces -supported and instigated by the enemies of socialism from abroad-are attempting to bring about a counterrevolutionary reversal in this fraternal socialist country [Poland]." Invoking the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine that was used to justify the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Husák warned ominously that "the protection of the socialist system is . . . the joint concern of the states of the socialist community...
...turned out, Brezhnev was the only foreign party chief present at the party congress in Prague. And when the Soviet leader shuffled to the podium the day after Husák's diatribe, he adopted a far more moderate tone. He alluded only obliquely to the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968. "But one would have to assume," he added, "that the Polish Communists, with the support of all true Polish patriots," would be able "to give a fitting rebuff to the designs of the enemies of the socialist system." The statement seemed to offer Warsaw's leaders...
...Soviet claim over Eastern Europe by using military force against obstreperous satellites. Soviet tanks quelled riots in East Berlin in 1953 and crushed the rebellion in Hungary in 1956, an episode that cost the lives of more than 25,000 Hungarians. And in justifying the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet press proclaimed the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine: the U.S.S.R. reserves the right to use force in any "fraternal country" where it deems "socialism" to be in jeopardy. None of those interventions, whether in time of cold war or thaw, elicited from the West meaningful political and economic...
...growls of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák the day before. The game was good-cop-bad-cop, but it worked. So much, then, for the impressive show of force. To be sure, the Soviets might be lying about the troop withdrawal, might be pulling another Czechoslovakia '68 by cutting out temporarily only to set up an imminent invasion. But, at least for the moment, many observers seemed content to consider peace in our time, simply because a threat had not been carried...
...week-old Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. Stepped-up attacks against Polish "counterrevolutionaries" in Izvestiya, Soviet government newspaper. A sudden flight to Prague by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to meet with Warsaw Pact leaders. It seemed all too reminiscent of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, an operation that had followed on the heels of Warsaw Pact war games. Could that scenario be replayed now in Poland? No one could say. But the alarming signs sparked a new round of invasion jitters last week, just as the Poles should have been heaving a sigh of relief at having averted...