Word: czechoslovaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the country, black flags of mourning appeared on buildings, statues and monuments. On walls, barn doors, highway signs, car and store windows, the Czechoslovaks tacked up posters and chalked messages demanding in all the languages of the Warsaw Pact that the invaders go home. One message scrawled on a wall in Prague read: "Lenin, wake up. Brezhnev has gone mad!" Said another: "Hungarians, go home. Have you not had enough of these things?" Wenceslas Square turned into a fleet of Czechoslovak flags bobbing on a sea of demonstrators, who shouted in the direction of the 20 tanks parked among...
...stranded Americans, including onetime Film Star Shirley Temple Black and TV Actor Robert (U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, to West Germany and Austria. Tourists streamed out of the country in their cars, often driving past menacing Soviet tanks parked at lonely countryside junctions with their guns pointed at the road. The Czechoslovaks at first begged the tourists to stay and aid them in their struggle, then put them to work carrying out mail for relatives abroad and film to show the world what was happening. As the tourists left the country, Czechoslovak frontier guards urged them to mobilize opinion against the Russians when...
Stronger than Tanks. That struggle grew more and more coordinated?and cunning?as the Czechoslovaks mobilized all their resources to baffle, stymie and frustrate their occupiers. The campaign was directed and inspired by radio stations that continued to operate secretly throughout the country?reportedly with transmitters provided by the Czechoslovak army?after the Russians had shut down the regular government transmitters. "We have no weapons, but our contempt is stronger than tanks," proclaimed one such station near Bratislava. The station suggested that its listeners "switch around street signs, take house numbers from the doors, remove nameplates from public buildings...
...Russians were also negotiating in Prague with President Ludvik Svoboda, who as head of state could provide a stamp of legitimacy for a puppet government?and who commands immense popular prestige in both Czechoslovakia and Russia as a World War II leader of the Czechoslovak army that fought with the Soviets against Hitler. Though troops ringed his residence in Hradcany Castle, Svoboda was able to broadcast over the free radio...
License Numbers. Back home, the Czechoslovak people continued to show the same sort of solidarity with Dubcek as Svoboda had shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...