Word: czechoslovakia
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...Rumanians and the Yugoslavs are not expecting a Czechoslovakia-style invasion in the immediate future. But they fear that because the Helsinki declaration has in effect ratified Moscow's hegemony over Eastern Europe, the Soviets might be emboldened to step up their efforts to curb the independent behavior of Rumania and Yugoslavia...
There was also some help from outside. Party Chief Cunhal enjoyed close links with Moscow and Prague, where he spent nearly 14 years in exile. He even supported the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia-the only West European party leader to do so. Jan Sejna, a onetime major general in the Czech army who defected in 1968 and is now in Washington, has testified that in an average year, Moscow supplied $820,000 for the Portuguese Communists and rebels in the African colonies. There were other forms of assistance: under orders from the Soviets, Czech Communists printed newspapers and pamphlets...
Among the most interested observers of recent events in Portugal are members of the Spanish Communist Party. Founded in 1921, the party is strongly nationalistic and independent of Moscow, with which it officially split over the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Although banned by the regime of ailing Dictator Francisco Franco, 82, the Communists are conservatively estimated to have 12,000 members, and by their own count many more. Recently, they have enlisted a broad spectrum of individuals, including many professionals, in the junta democrática-an umbrella organization whose professed purpose is "to unite the opponents...
...make enemies of us? We do not want to make enemies of a country as powerful as the United States. We are not proposing that the American forces withdraw from their bases in Spain. Nevertheless we think they should leave Spain one day just as the Soviets should leave Czechoslovakia. We are ready to protect American investment. We are not advocating a program of economic starvation...
...other original inmates, Walther Funk, head of the Reichsbank, Czechoslovakia's Nazi Boss Konstantin von Neurath, Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, and Admirals Erich Rae-der and Karl Doenitz were released either after completing their sentences or because of failing health...