Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow Politburo's decision to go to Czechoslovakia becalmed temporarily a storm that has darkened the skies of all Eastern Europe. It was nearly as surprising a concession for the Russians to make as it would have been for John F. Kennedy and his Cabinet to have journeyed to Havana for talks during the Cuban missile crisis. Never in the Soviet Union's 50-year history has the entire party leadership traveled abroad. The Russians had at first peremptorily insisted that the Czechoslovaks come to the Soviet Union...
...country over the past seven months. Moscow claims that the liberalization is paving the way for subversion and counterrevolution and weakening a keystone in the entire Warsaw Defense Pact structure. The Russian talks with Prague's leaders may well determine whether democracy will have any future in Eastern Europe-and whether the Czechoslovaks will have to defend their new society against the unleashed fury of Russian tanks and troops...
Show of Force. To strengthen their case at the summit conference, the Russians mobilized their armies throughout Eastern Europe in a massive and unprecedented show of power. At least 3,000 men, out of the original Soviet force of 16,000 troops who had come to Czechoslovakia in June for Warsaw Pact exercises, kept up their conspicuous bivouac near roads in Slovakia last week. The few Russian units that did leave marched straight to Poland, where they pitched their tents hard by Czechoslovakia's border. Soviet tanks and at least 1,000 other military vehicles suddenly began rolling over...
...eastern part of the country, some villagers bantered with the Soviet troops, even offered them flowers and glasses of wine. In turn, the Russians played their accordions for the people, sang songs, kicked around a ball with the youngsters and even helped farmers to harvest their crops. The regime in Prague was unconcerned over this fraternization, indeed was proud of the restraint showed by its people. The fact was that the entire nation was eager to get rid of the troops as soon as possible; the flowers and wine constituted a shrewd Czechoslovak tactic to persuade the Russians that they...
...consult with party leaders there. The conference would most likely take place at either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops, Dubček certainly did not plan to cower or apologize. Instead he hoped to take the offensive himself at the outset. The Czechoslovaks have some grievances of their own concerning Soviet domination of both the Warsaw Pact and the COMECON economic community...