Word: czechoslovakia
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...humiliation of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček has been thoroughly documented from the days in August 1968 when he was held captive in Moscow to his firing as Prague's ambassador to Turkey and his expulsion from the Communist Party two weeks ago. Less well known but no less poignant has been the plight of Dubček's attractive blonde wife Anna...
...Chilean ambassador's daughter. Nonetheless, she sent a wedding gift, carefully enclosing both her and her husband's calling cards. A friend later telephoned to tell her that the gift had arrived without either one; another card had been substituted saying simply, "From the Embassy of Czechoslovakia." Anna broke down in tears...
...leadership. Last week Radio Prague denounced him as a "renegade, traitor, revisionist and failure." For the time being, the Dubčeks reportedly plan to return to Trencin, in their native Slovakia, where Alexander's 80-year-old mother has a house. There, the ex-leader of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party is expected to be assigned to a white-collar job in a factory...
...East Bloc's orthodox leaders, notably East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, felt otherwise. Fearful that Dubček's reforms would ignite a liberal movement throughout the bloc, the Kremlin sent tanks to crush Prague's experiment. Because of his strong popular backing in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets for a time allowed Dubček to continue as party first secretary while compelling him to dismantle the very reforms that he had enacted...
Then in April 1969, Dubček was shunted aside in favor of Gustav Husak, who publicly thanked the Soviets for rescuing Czechoslovakia from the danger of Dubček's liberalism. Nonetheless, Husak, who in Czechoslovak terms is a moderate, refused to accede to demands of ultraconservatives who wanted Dubček punished for his sins. Instead, Husak managed to send Dubček and his wife Anna into the relative safety of political exile as ambassador to Turkey. Sad-eyed and aged far beyond his 48 years, Dubček kept mostly to himself in Ankara, brushed...