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Even so, Dubček's ouster represented the culmination of a tragedy for Czechoslovakia. Dubcek had not sought to overthrow Communism; he wanted only, in his words, "to give it a human face" by removing needless abuses and brutalities. For a time, it seemed as if the tall, soft-spoken Slovak might succeed. Channeling a groundswell of discontent among both intellectuals and workers against the Stalinist regime of President and Party Boss Antonin Novotny, Dubček in early 1968 managed to overthrow the old order and institute the most far-ranging reforms and freedoms that had ever...
Greetings from Dubcek. Russia, it be came clear as the meeting progressed, had joined imperialism as a target. It aly's Communist party, the biggest in the West with 1,500,000 members, had protested the August occupation of Czechoslovakia; last week's meeting quickly developed into a forum in which the Russians were reproached anew in some of the most forceful language ever used against them. Longo main tained that "the authority of the Czecho slovak leaders is a precious patrimony for all their people, for all Socialist countries, for all men in the world who believe...
During Czechoslovakia's "springtime of freedom," First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek was the symbol of the country's new liberal spirit. Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has increasingly become the symbol of compromise and collaboration. Bending to the will of his Soviet overlords, how ever reluctantly, Dubcek has moved into the forefront of those who are shaping the country's return to stern Communist orthodoxy...
...August, five years to the month after Khrushchev and Kennedy concluded the test-ban treaty, the long and delicate approach to a Soviet-American detente was reversed by Moscow's heavy-handed repression of a progressive regime in Czechoslovakia. For a few months it seemed as if Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak party boss, might succeed in his breathtaking attempt to defy Moscow and build a humane, relatively liberal and more efficient Marxist regime in his country; the Soviet tanks that ended this attempt for the time being did not end the hopes he had expressed. But Moscow may have...
...real plan emerged, but that night two of them hung a Czechoslovak flag out of an apartment window, then painted the word Dubcek on the walls of East Berlin's Staatsbibliothek. They were caught a few hours later...