Word: dubcek
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...home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander Dubcek, Kriegel and his colleagues were arrested by the Russians during the 1968 Soviet invasion and held captive in Moscow. Expelled from the Communist Party within a year of his return, he joined other dissidents in 1977 in sponsoring the "Charter 77" human rights petition...
...first postwar Defense Minister and secretly abetted the Communist takeover three years later. Discredited and imprisoned during the Stalinist purges of the early '50s, he was politically resurrected by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1968, the retired general was selected as a compromise presidential candidate by liberal Czech Leader Alexander Dubcek, who hoped the choice would allay Moscow's growing doubts about Dubcek's fealty. The plan failed, and Dubcek was brutally ousted later that year. Svoboda, who retained his office until 1975, managed to wrest Dubcek and other liberal officials from Soviet custody but agreed in return...
...help. The successful dissident movement, as in Poland, is continually riding a tiger--pushing the regime hard enough to extract comcessions, but not so hard as to provoke repression. And in most countries there is no immediate prospect of overthrowing the regime, or even of achieving Dubcek's "Communism with a human face." If Carter and Brezinski really wish to aid the cause of human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed up by hard-headed knowledge of local situations--how far economic pressures...
...concerned that an aboveground Tudeh would serve as a Trojan horse for the Soviet Union, and the Shah is reliably reported to have worried privately that in some future political crisis, legalized Iranian Communists might seek and get the "fraternal assistance" of the Soviet Union, the way Alexander Dubcek's political enemies did in Czechoslovakia...
...ties with Eastern Europe at Moscow's expense. But one Soviet relationship, that with Prague, seems likely to stay firm for quite some time. Czech President Gustav Husak last week actually thanked the Soviets for their "unselfish assistance" in invading his country ten years ago and toppling the liberal Dubcek regime...