Word: dubcek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Europe, Alexander Dubcek's two Communist allies were, if anything, stronger in their protest. "The attack on Czechoslovakia," said Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, "is a significant historical rupture in the relations among Socialist countries." Rumanian Presi dent and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu called it "a great mistake, a grave danger to peace...
...chose the violent tactic now. One possibility is that the Soviets never considered seriously any other solution to the Czechoslovak problem. The sweet reasonableness at Cierna was all a feint. They could also have come to Cierna in the hope of finding-and aiding-a rebellious rump group in Dubcek's party leadership, and failed. Or they might have decided, after watching post-Cierna Czechoslovakia, that Dubcek simply could not or did not want to deliver on their demands of holding down his reforms. Finally, the invasion could have been a by-product of a power shift inside...
Rendering unto Moscow. The most telling clue lies not in what the Russians did bring with them to Czechoslovakia but what they did not: a new government. Had the political decision to bring Dubcek under control or to oust him outright been in readiness long, the Soviets would have followed up their efficient military takeover with an equally efficient installation of a ruling order more to their liking. Instead, they placed the country in a state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily...
...caution evident politically last week would seem to suggest that the Russian leaders had approached their dramatic meeting with Dubcek at Cierna with the hope of regaining sway over Czechoslovakia nonforcibly, if not amicably. It is quite likely that they expected to find a clique of dissidents in Dubcek's entourage through whom they could work for subversion. Dubcek. however, was able to draw the line so clearly between the right of Czechoslovaks to run their own na tional affairs and Russia's in ternational claims as bloc lead er that just before the conference opened...
...blocs. Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the attack "a flagrant violation of all accepted standards of international behavior." In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her "concern and anguish," but her statement was not strong enough to please members of Parliament, who filled the chamber with cries of "Dubcek! Dubcek!" Dem onstrations took place throughout the free world. In Bonn, German students mobbed the car of Soviet Ambassador Tsarapkin. In Tokyo, leftist students for the first time in history marched on the Soviet embassy in protest...