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...Czechoslovakia, which held its first free elections in more than 44 years last spring, could collapse economically if Western European countries and the United States do not send more economic aid, Czech Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier told a Kennedy School audience last night...
...Middle East crisis was mentioned as an element that is straining the Eastern European economies. "We are in danger to be strangled by oil prices and a very bad economic situation," Dienstbier warned a capacity crowd at a panel discussion about "Freedom in Czechoslovakia...
Fortunately, Stalin was just probing. Thank goodness we didn't move troops into Czechoslovakia -- at least not on that occasion. The Czechoslovaks had the warmest and the most brotherly feelings toward us, especially compared with the peoples of certain other countries...
...made Poland almost ungovernable. Brezhnev was in power in Moscow, and the doctrine he had formulated allowed the Soviet Union to intervene militarily should its interests in Eastern Europe be threatened. It may be hard to imagine today, but nine years ago, the invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 were still powerful reminders of Soviet resolve...
...Jaruzelski was army chief of staff when Solidarity came into being in 1980 and became the Communist Party leader the following year. His 1981 crackdown did not lead to witch hunts or secret trials, as the 1956 invasion did in Hungary. There was none of the petty vindictiveness of Czechoslovakia's Soviet-backed Communist clique. "He has always been a politician with bad cards who has tried to minimize the damage," says Professor Jerzy Holzar, a historian at the University of Warsaw...