Word: czechoslovakia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Radcliffe started well in the race, and a third of the way through, led both Poland and Czechoslovakia. But unfortunately, the 'Cliffe eight pulled a couple of crabs at the 500 meter mark, which was just enough to set them behind the rest of the closely-knit field. Radcliffe finished last and, along with the Czechs, failed to make the finals. Rumania, East Germany, Poland, and Hungary joined the Russians and Bulgarians in the finals the next...
...intellectuals of Eastern Europe have yet to benefit from the improving political climate between East and West. If anything, their lot has deteriorated, particularly in Czechoslovakia, where the leader of the Politburo's hardline faction, Vasil Bilak, seems to be carrying out a witch hunt against suspect liberal ideas. The lessening of tensions, Bilak has announced, will not result in official toleration of "rightists, opportunists, revisionists and organizers of counter-revolution...
...such scoundrels, the country's libraries have now started combing their shelves, removing thousands of works by some 300 Czechoslovak authors. The books are being crated and shipped to an unknown destination for pulping. References to them in library card catalogues are being destroyed. Works about or by Czechoslovakia's founder, Tomas Masaryk, and about his successor, Eduard Benes, have disappeared-as have all records relating to Alexander Dubcek's 1968 fall from power. Editions of Marx and Engels fare no better if they contain prefaces by blacklisted authors...
Lenzlinger makes freedom smuggling sound like more fun than massage parlors. But there are obvious dangers. One of his associates recently was caught inside Czechoslovakia and sentenced to three years in prison. Since then, Lenzlinger has stopped going to Communist countries. Now he relies on agents. Still, he says, "I have more business than I can handle...
Ulbricht favored similarly harsh measures whenever he felt that orthodox Communist regimes elsewhere in Eastern Europe might permit greater internal freedoms. He championed Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956 and was the first to denounce the liberal Communist regime of Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968, earning the hatred of Hungarians and Czechs-but reinforcing his support from Moscow...