Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade union movements may be cropping up in other Soviet satellites. The first explicit confirmation came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland," he said, "people in many places in Czechoslovakia had begun to discuss the status of the unions and their tasks in a socialist society...
Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The Soviets have 31 divisions in the western Soviet Union, 19 in East Germany, five in Czechoslovakia, two in Poland; they could also draw on troops affiliated with other Warsaw Pact nations. One Western observer estimates the Soviets "could be within effective control of large portions of the country within 24 hours after deciding to invade...
Administration officials were disturbed that Soviet troops had been brought closer to Poland's eastern border and that Moscow was continuing to call up reservists. Intelligence reports said that command and communication links between the Soviet Union and military facilities in East Germany and Czechoslovakia were also being put in top readiness. Said a senior Administration official: "It is our judgment that they are now ready to move...
Based on Soviet tactics in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan last year, experts in Bonn outlined the following possible invasion scenario: the two Soviet divisions stationed in Poland would quickly try to secure strategic points, notably major airports, so that infantry and light artillery could be flown in as reinforcements. At the same time, tank forces and additional motorized infantry would move across the borders from the Soviet Union and East Germany. Soldiers from the satellites would be used sparingly, in case anti-Soviet feeling flared throughout the East bloc. East German troops would probably be withheld...
...Czechoslovakia's Communist government responded to the publication of this book in Europe last year by revoking the citizenship of Author Milan Kundera. The act was largely symbolic and gratuitous; Kundera had left his repressive homeland and settled in France in 1975. In their own thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...