Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western strategists suggested that Moscow might be pinching the cold war's most sensitive nerve to divert attention from its repression of CzechoSlovakia. By fostering a crisis atmosphere, the Russians might be seeking a pretext for stationing Soviet troops in Rumania. On the theory that nothing unites reluctant allies like a good common enemy, Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin...
...first glance, it seemed as if the Russians had gone a long way toward "normalizing" Czechoslovakia by rescinding most of the personal and political freedoms that had been granted during the heady liberal regime of Alexander Dubček. In fact, the plucky Czechoslovaks were using their wits and will to walk a shaky tightwire between overt compliance and covert resistance to Russia's goals. Last week, as Soviet soldiers settled into winter quarters outside Prague and other cities for what is likely to be a long occupation, it was plain that the Kremlin considered Czechoslovakia far from normalized...
What kept the Social Democrats upright more than anything else was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, which encouraged countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg...
...York Film Festival isn't what it used to be. Perhaps it never was. True, previous festivals did provide American debuts for some major foreign films: Poland's Knife in the Water (1963), Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (1965), Italy's The Battle of Algiers (1967). But movie enthusiasts tend to forget the undistinguished and unmemorable fare that made up the bulk of the programs. Even at its best, Lincoln Center offered the viewer only a few diamonds in a setting of zircons...
Just how much more unfit than some of the items accepted by the festival is difficult to imagine. Closely Watched Trains, by Jiri Menzel of Czechoslovakia, won an Oscar as the Best Foreign Film of 1967. This year Menzel returns with Capricious Summer, a disappointingly slight fable about a traveling carnival in a small country town. There are three films from what the festival labels "the German Renaissance"; two of them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which...