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Supporters of Alexander Dubcek's ill-fated 1968 attempt to give "socialism a human face" in Czechoslovakia are being punished in such numbers that even Western Communists have begun to protest. Last week in the seventh known trial since July 17, former Czech Communist Party College Rector Milan Hübl, 45, and two other men were accused of distributing "provocative printed matter" in order to weaken "the socialist system in the state." That is, they had passed out pamphlets during Czechoslovakia's elections last fall, informing voters of their constitutional right to cross out names...
...four years since Russian tanks crushed Alexander Dubcek's experimental "socialism with a human face," predominantly Roman Catholic Czechoslovakia has undergone a national religious revival-perhaps in reaction to the imposition of Soviet-style repression. The number of baptisms, church weddings, church funerals and applications to seminaries has been steadily rising, and more and more citizens are giving their children religious instruction. Lately, the Soviet-installed regime of Gustav Husák has responded to the trend with a concerted anti-church campaign of discrimination, propaganda and outright repression...
...protect its reputation for accuracy, RFE's broadcasts, if anything, err on the side of caution. When reports of Alexander Dubcek's ouster first came from Prague over a Western news ticker, RFE waited for Czechoslovakia's confirmation before airing the item. Despite the fact that for years RFE held up Yugoslavia as an example of how a Communist regime could peacefully develop toward liberalism, RFE has given extensive coverage to the Croatian crisis that has shaken Yugoslavia's progress toward greater governmental freedoms. Judging by the annual polls of East bloc tourists in Western Europe...
...fought a temporary delaying action before Prague. It is virtually certain that even a limited Czech armed resistance would have triggered off a general insurrection all over the captive area of Eastern Europe. Russian occupation and dominance would then have become logistically, psychologically and economically insupportable. The Czech (or Dubcek) failure to seize the historic moment has doomed all East Europe to continued tyranny. Those who will not fight for land and freedom abdicate their right to either, and to the world's sympathy...
...switched over to full-time party work and rose to regional party director in Gorky before Brezhnev selected him in 1968 to come to Moscow as Central Committee secretary for relations with other ruling Communist parties. In that role, Katushev was instrumental in putting down Alexander Dubcek's "Springtime of Freedom" in Prague and overseeing the "normalization" of Czechoslovakia. Katushev is not brusque and bullying, like Brezhnev, but persistent and demanding. "He is a tough negotiator with a steel-trap mind," reports a Rumanian diplomat who has dealt with...