Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan. In response, in January 1980, Carter summoned Watson back to the United States, a move officially called "a return for consultations," but publicly described by White House officials as "a diplomatic act of retaliation." In similar situations in the past--Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968--the U.S. ambassador had remained in Moscow, Some, including the unidentified State Department officials, saw Watson's recall as indication that he had "no special background in foreign affairs" and "no particular access to Soviet leadership." "Is Watson the Right Man?" asked an article in Newsweek in February...
...Communists were frozen out of power with the inauguration of the cold war and slumped into a thoroughly Stalinist mold. Indeed, the first word of anti-Soviet criticism from the P.C.F. did not come until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...Polish party who held "views foreign to a Marxist-Leninist party." In the view of many Western analysts, the liberal evolution of the Polish party could pose a far more serious threat to the Soviets than the independent labor movement. Indeed, the situation seemed increasingly to resemble that of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when a party-led reform movement finally brought on a Soviet-led invasion. In the case of Poland, the immediate invasion threat appeared to be receding last week; State Department officials confirmed that most Warsaw Pact units had returned to their barracks after three weeks of intimidating maneuvers...
...growls of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák the day before. The game was good-cop-bad-cop, but it worked. So much, then, for the impressive show of force. To be sure, the Soviets might be lying about the troop withdrawal, might be pulling another Czechoslovakia '68 by cutting out temporarily only to set up an imminent invasion. But, at least for the moment, many observers seemed content to consider peace in our time, simply because a threat had not been carried...
...establish a high credibility rating. Even Brezhnev's conciliatory speech replaced one form of threat with another. In case anyone on earth might miss the point of his choosing Prague as the site for his remarks, he said: "I am sure we have a common stand with Czechoslovakia, just as with the other countries of the socialist community." The statement seemed to be a nod to Husák's bad-cop routine, but its effect was to remind Polish listeners that it was not so long ago that the loyal Czechs were as obstreperous as they...