Word: dubcek
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...JOURNAL. "The Quiet Revolution." A documentary study of the economic, social and political reforms of Czech Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek that led to last month's Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. German, British and Czech films show the tense confrontation between Dubcek and Russia's Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev in August at Cierna...
...people clearly did not share that sentiment. In East Berlin, for example, hundreds of people flatly refused the demand of party workers to sign petitions in support of the intervention. Instead, they came to the Czechoslovak cultural center, where they left bouquets and bought, as some said, "souvenirs of Dubcek...
...Cuba, are heavily dependent on Russian arms and aid. The third, North Korea, customarily sides with the Russians in the Sino-Soviet dispute. On the other hand, the most biting protest of all came from, of all places, China. Mao and Co. would not think of tolerating a Dubcek in China, and they have berated Moscow precisely because it has been soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced and typical specimen of fascist power...
...Europe. In the early 1950s, the Western European parties abandoned their revolutionary tactics and went respectable. Since then, they have been trying, with only a fair amount of success, to convince voters that a Communist government does not necessarily entail a suppression of political opponents or loss of freedom. Dubcek's Czechoslovakia, if only it had lasted, would have been their best advertisement...
...change built up. Art, especially literature and film making, experienced an underground renaissance. Artists and students demanded freedom of expression. Industrial planners and economists asked for freer and more effective ways of doing business. Last January, the new forces surging within Czechoslovak Communism culminated in the person of Alexander Dubcek, who ousted Novotny from power and instituted a series of liberal reforms. For eight memorable months, Czechoslovakia was one of the most exciting and hopeful places in the world...