Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really don't know what the Soviet leaders have in mind," observed U.S. Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland. He referred to the fact that the Warsaw Pact forces moved into Czechoslovakia without having prepared a quisling regime or accurately gauged the Czechoslovaks' solidarity. Added Cleveland: "If the Russians couldn't read their close neighbors, the Czechoslovaks, any better than they did in August, how well are they reading us in October...
...Soviets seemed to be settling into Czechoslovakia for a long stay. With a treaty signed in Prague, the Russians last week imposed a legal veneer on their occupation. They reserved the privilege to intervene in Czechoslovak affairs whenever they again detect another threat of "counter-revolution." The Kremlin is likely to use that clause to intimidate First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek from attempting to reinstate his earlier liberalization policies. On the military front, Moscow gained the right to station troops on Czechoslovak soil indefinitely...
...return for the Prague leaders' agreement on the treaty, the Soviets promised to send home all non-Soviet divisions in Czechoslovakia and reduce the number of their own divisions within the next months. According to speculation in Prague, seven divisions, armored and motorized, will remain behind. They are equipped with Scud and Frog tactical missiles that can fire either conventional or nuclear warheads. The Soviet command is setting up headquarters at Milovice, 25 miles northeast of Prague, where Russian technicians have already installed a troposcatter communications system that gives Soviet Commander Ivan Pavlovsky instant and unjammable contact with other...
Though the U.S. would not automatically respond to an attack on Yugoslavia, as it would to one on a NATO ally, the Johnson Administration nevertheless is eager to alert the Soviets to the U.S. concern. At Czechoslovakia's request, the U.S. had refrained from any public warnings to the Soviets during the tense preinvasion period in order not to provide the Soviets with another pretense for marching into Prague. Silence having proved futile, the Administration is now determined to impress on the Soviets, given their new mood of unpredictability, that the U.S. will stand by its allies in Europe...
...only four days after Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia, a small group of Russian dissenters in Moscow's Red Square unfurled banners that said HANDS OFF CZECHOSLOVAKIA! and SHAME ON THE INVADERS! Beaten, cursed and arrested by KGB (secret police) agents, they were charged with making a public disturbance and slandering the Soviet Union. After a three-day trial, a Moscow court two weeks ago imposed terms of exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought...