Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeking to explain why he felt compelled to try, yet again, to attempt linkage, that Haig said, "The situation in Poland casts a long and dark shadow" across the whole range of relations. True enough. But so does the situation in Afghanistan. And in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba and the U.S.S.R. itself, all of which are under less blatant but hardly less brutal forms of martial law. The very nature of the Soviet system and the exercise of Soviet power cast a long, dark shadow across U.S. policy. So far linkage has been just another word in the vocabulary...
...Hitler had also put the unemployed to work at building superhighways and other showy projects, but now his obsession was to acquire new territory. In 1938 came the Nazis' Anschluss of Austria; in 1938 Hitler browbeat the British and French into letting him seize the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia in exchange for a false promise of "peace in our time." In 1938 too the Japanese pushed southward across China and captured Canton...
...offered several different theories on why anti-semitism against mathematicians has increased over the last decade but agreed with Victor Kac, a professor of Mathematics at MIT and Soviet emmigre, that a "heightened climate of political repression" exists. The Soviet Union became more suppressive after 1968 when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia, Kac said yesterday...
...penchant for self-inflicted violence extends in less spectacular but more persistent form to Europe. The only military operations that Soviet forces have actually carried out on the Continent since the Warsaw Pact was formed 26 years ago have been to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring in 1968. Today a considerable portion of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and contingency planning is focused on Poland-the country where the treaty creating the alliance was signed. If Polish troops cannot stabilize the situation, their allies may move in to help. While the Warsaw Pact...
...means of diplomacy, intimidation, propaganda, covert action, or the use of proxies. If necessary, though, it will resort to direct military intervention to ensure the survival of the Soviet system, including in those countries where the system has been imposed by outright conquest-such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and, possibly next, Poland. On Christmas Day two years ago, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan to prop up a faltering Marxist regime and has been there ever since...