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...general, the Soviets have recovered from the international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow...
...former Secretary of State William Rogers). Son of a Greek mother and Greek-Cypriot father, Rossides argues that the Cyprus crisis "exposed the myth of Kissinger's competence as a negotiator," and that the Turkish aggression was "equal to if not worse than the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Hitler's aggression against Czechoslovakia and the Balkan nations." Such invidious rhetoric aside, Rossides' group has efficiently spearheaded the lobbying...
...good-but all of them in liberty." Party Leader Fanfani made 200 campaign appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...
...Soyez realistes demandez l'impossible!") with the Stalinist slogans Jaromil is editing for the May Day parade in Prague some twenty years before. Nothings was more foreign to the spontaneity and libertarian spirit of the May 1968 revolt than the oppressive regimentation of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia; the Parisian May had probably more in common with the Prague Spring of 1968 (in which Kundera played an active role) than he suspects...
...biased premises; while Kundera equates lyrical poetry, in its quest for the absolute, with revolutions that often turn into dictatorships, the novel is the art of reason, maturity, and truth, where you cannot cheat. That is why there are no great Stalinist novels. But Stalinist poetry (like Nezval in Czechoslovakia or Kundera himself in his youth) left us beautiful verse because through the magic of poetry, all statements become the truth, provided they are backed by the power of real experience. And the poet certainly experiences deeply, so deeply their emotions smoulder and blaze. The smoke of their firely feelings...