Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give anything, we can't do anything, we don't sell anything, we don't help, we don't understand, we don't betray." The tenth was printed in large letters: "We will not forget anything." The "commandments" proved to be captive Czechoslovakia's secret weapon against the Russian invaders...
...were surrounded. Věra Stovíčková, one of the best-known voices of Prague Radio, got past Russian guards by claiming that she was a charwoman. Others slipped out of the studios with vital transmitting equipment, which was soon wired up to put "Radio Free Czechoslovakia" on the air from a downtown Prague apartment. Because single transmitters are easy to track, engineers bounced their signal to transmitters at new locations every quarter hour, some of them supplied by the Czechoslovakian army. The underground radio network was such a total success that President Svoboda had to broadcast...
...Czechoslovakia's national television network also juggled its beams from one location to another, always keeping one jump ahead of Soviet search parties. At one point, announcers were broadcasting from the city planetarium in the Moravian city of Brno. Crowed an engineer: "The Russians have plenty of tanks, but tanks cannot detect signals." Having learned just that, the Soviet commander in Moravia became so incensed at the persistent television coverage that he threatened to level the town if the station stayed on the air. Technicians thereupon switched off, temporarily. Meanwhile, cameramen were stuffing Bolex gear under their raincoats...
...strategy of Czechoslovakia's passive resistance was summed up by a sign painted in downtown Prague: "Hate intelligently." As their morale started to ebb last week with each new sign that Russia had regained sway over their lives, Czechoslovaks were hating even more, but much of their sly resistance was gone. Like the underground TV crews, some of the leaders of defiance were on the run, and even the underground radio stations had given up broadcasting tips on how to make life miserable for the Russians. One station devoted 45 minutes to a reading on the life...
...Square was crowded with Sunday strollers when the little band of people sat down on the Lobnoye Mesto,* just outside the Kremlin. Inside, Soviet leaders were holding meetings with Czechoslovakia's top leaders. Suddenly, from the midst of the seated group, banners sprouted: "Hands off Czechoslovakia!" "Shame on the occupiers!" Among the seven demonstrators were Larisa Daniel, wife of Author Yuli Daniel, now serving a labor camp sentence for writing anti-Soviet material; Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Russia's wartime Foreign Minister, Maxim Litvinov; Viktor Feinberg, an art critic; and Poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who had brought along...