Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "The Quiet Revolution." A documentary study of the economic, social and political reforms of Czech Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek that led to last month's Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. German, British and Czech films show the tense confrontation between Dubcek and Russia's Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev in August at Cierna...
...invasion of Czechoslovakia [Aug. 30] further demonstrates the brutality and treachery of which the Soviet leaders are capable. We've been painfully aware of these traits for some time. What I had not realized was the state of mind of these men. They have sacrificed improved Soviet-U.S. relations, dealt the antiwar faction in the U.S. a severe blow, lessened the chances for a peaceful end to the Viet Nam war, and even blackened themselves in the eyes of other Communists, all to smash a growth of freedom that was in no way a threat to Russia...
...Behold how quickly doth the bubble burst! Too bad there had to be a sacrificial lamb to point out the inevitable, but better Czechoslovakia now than us later. Conservatives are profoundly entitled to utter the loudest "We told you so" of the decade...
...Senators McCarthy and McGovern state that our capacity to protest the events in Czechoslovakia has been weakened because of our involvement in Viet Nam. I suggest that besides withdrawing from Viet Nam, we could further strengthen our capacity to protest by withdrawing all U.S. forces from Europe and Asia. If our protests still prove to be ineffective in preventing more Czechoslovakias we could escalate our protesting capacity by unilateral disarmament...
...Soviet aircraft flying to East German landing strips near the Czechoslovak border. Scanning radar screens, NATO intelligence officers were worried. Were the planes participating in the menacing war games that Warsaw Pact armies had been playing for more than two months? When the planes took off, heading away from Czechoslovakia-for the time being-the watchers relaxed...