Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIREMEN'S BALL. From a slight and funny anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief, Director Miloś Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a delightful parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy in pre-Dubćek Czechoslovakia...
Within hours of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia last August, the Western broadcasts that had boomed through so clearly for half a decade were once again obscured by artificial static that overrode many broadcasts. The resumption of jamming was obviously an attempt to muffle the world's outcry against the invasion by Soviet troops, and it represented no small effort. The Soviets switched back on all their coldwar jamming devices, which some experts number in the hundreds. They consistently tried to blank out the Voice of America, the BBC and West Germany's Deutsche Welle, and at various...
...generated during Dubcek's early stewardship wither away under Soviet pressure. When TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who covered both the idyl and the ordeal, recently returned to Prague after an absence of two months, he found that the Russian presence was certainly the No. 1 reality in Czechoslovakia. Yet much of the country's mood, he found, remained resilient. For-bath's report...
...remarkably discreet occupation Except for an occasional jeep or transport truck, hardly a single piece of Soviet military equipment is now visible in Czechoslovakia. The Kremlin has taken extraordinary measures to keep its troops out of sight. On pain of facing desertion charges, Soviet enlisted men and noncommissioned officers have been forbidden to leave their rigidly secured garrisons. Even the few officers who wangle twelve-hour passes into town have strict orders to avoid contact with civilians, and they often gaze longingly into the display windows of sweetshops without ever working up the courage to go inside and buy something...
Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...