Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several times I was told what would happen if the Soviets tried to invade after tac Czechoslovakian intervention. "We would take to the hills again. We would fight them until they could fight no more," said one longhaired law student in Skopje. He planned on entering the army after graduation...
...Claire Sterling concludes in a new study of the case. The Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister, she says, was murdered-exactly as cold war history had it-by the Communists, under Soviet direction, two weeks after the party had taken power in Czechoslovakia. The guilty party was quick to declare Masaryk a suicide. Even in 1948, hardly anybody in Prague believed the story. Four weeks ago, after more than 20 years, the Czech Communists closed an investigation they themselves had opened under the liberal Dubcek regime. Despite the new presence of the Russian army, they withdrew the suicide verdict...
...hard to repent if your policy is based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the scrutiny of historic experience and on the resolution not to permit the armed crossing of the Czechoslovakian or any other international frontier through acquiescence, umbrella in hand, in any Munich Pact, however disguised...