Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych's stark symbolism...
Invited, unexpected and unwelcome all at the same time, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew into Prague last week to have a look for himself at what is going on in Czechoslovakia...
Only three days before, the liberalizing regime of Alexander Dubcek had announced that Kosygin would not be accepting any time soon its invitation to him to visit Czechoslovakia...
...Czechoslovakia has followed the pattern. Czech artists initiated the process of liberalization by gradually expanding the limits of the creative freedom allowed them by the state. They have produced movies, for example, of such sensitivity and taste as to stun the West. This freedom has since spilled over into the political realm--till today there is talk of establishing non-Communist "opposition" parties...
...REAL danger spot in Eastern Europe these days is not Czechoslovakia but Poland, where the Bureaucrats are counter-attacking moves that so far have remained almost exclusively on a cultural plane. These Bureaucrats are trying to ride the wave of nationalism but deny the liberalization that may have originally produced it. This is the meaning behind the anti-Semitic themes now being sounded in Poland...