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...spreading panicky moods, as if our state and all of our society were facing some sort of bankruptcy from which there is no way out." Husak thereupon assured his listeners that he would be better for them than either of his predecessors, Stalinist Antonin Novotny or Reformer Alexander Dubcek. "We do not want to return either to the Novotny bureaucracy or the Dubcek anarchy," he said...
...Soviet invasion killed that hope. Dubček's successor, Gustav Husák, justly complains that he took over an economy in chaos-but unjustly blames the Dubcek regime and specifically Sik, who is on indefinite official leave in Switzerland. The chaos is really the result of the repeal of the Dubček and Sik reforms, and of the fact that Czechs today commonly proclaim: "We are not going to work for the Russians." The Soviets, for their part, are doing nothing to help. They are withholding sorely needed credits until political "normalization" is complete...
...weeks, newspapers and radio broadcasts were filled with vituperation against Alexander Dubcek and the rest of Czechoslovakia's liberals. Ever since the Soviet invasion 13 months ago, the country's progressive leaders have had their influence stripped away gradually...
...Gomulka invited only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them all: East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht. Pleading illness, Ulbricht stayed home and sent Premier Willi Stoph in his place...
...unhappy Czechoslovaks have much to protest. Since stern Gustav Husák replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek as party chief in April, the country has been gripped by an ever-tightening rule. In a swift series of purges, the liberals of the Dubček era have been removed from the Central Com mittee. Among those dropped was Ota Sik, who earned Moscow's ire as the architect of Dubček's economic reforms...