Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time of Testing. As long as some 28 divisions of Soviet troops continue to patrol beyond Czechoslovakia's borders in Eastern Europe, the threat of military intervention will never be far away. For the moment, however, Eastern Europe's crisis seems to be over. Faced with a solid wall of opposition within Czechoslovakia and the support of Dubček by other Communist leaders (both Tito and Ceauşescu are journeying to Prague this week for a show of solidarity with Dubček), the Soviets had little choice...
...Claus overjoyed because "I haven't got the sack." Other recent covers depicted Britain's "good and faithful" civil servants as so many goose eggs in bowler hats. To point up last week's summit meeting in Cierna, the Economist pictured Russia's Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia's Dubček exchanging chitchat while clapping perfunctorily at a public function. This week's cover on birth control is a portrait of Pope Paul sitting in lonely majesty against a black background. The caption: "What world...
Only one perspective on the current Czech crisis is popular in the United States. According to this view, Czechoslovakia, a stubbornly courageous nation determined to escape communism, waits tensely in the shadow of annihilation cast by her oppressor of the last 20 years, Russia. Violence might erupt any moment...
...lack of bitterness towards Russia is therefore surprising, and from the stories he tells, his countrymen seem to feel the same way. Americans don't realize, says Papousek, that Czechoslovakia and Russia have been friendly for centuries...
During the 30's, newly-independent Czechoslovakia turned her face westward as well; to meet the Fascist threat she signed mutual defense pacts with England and France. Then Munich happened, in 1938, and once again Russia became the only recourse. Russian troops liberated Papousek's nation in 1945, and three years later the Czechs democratically elected a communist president...