Word: ek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However generous Russia's gesture, the Czechoslovaks were still very much under pressure-and not likely to welcome their guests with any brass bands. The Russians' mission is nothing less than to force the Czechoslovaks to forsake the democratic reforms that Party Boss Alexander Dubček has brought to the 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...
...Warsaw Pact; 2) that the Czechoslovak Communist Party is losing or giving up its leading role; 3) that the party is overrun with "revisionists"; 4) that Czechoslovak journalists are against the party, the Warsaw Pact and the unity of the Communist camp; and 5) that if Dubček does not act himself, he can expect "international help"-meaning from Red army troops. Dubček hardly seemed prepared to acknowledge any of this, but he did throw a pacifier Moscow's way. His party Presidium, replying to a harsh Soviet note, rigorously denied charges that the country...
...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...
Trying Everything. The eleven-man Czechoslovak Presidium has vowed to fight down the line for liberal reform and independence in the facedown with the eleven-member Politburo. Dubček agreed to take the entire Presidium with him, including the conservatives among whom the Russians hope to find some allies. But he planned to permit only the progressives to make formal statements at the meeting...
...Czechoslovaks to their socialist senses. For one thing, they would no doubt remind the Czechoslovaks that 80% of their trade is with the Soviet Union, which could easily cut off the wheat and raw materials that the country depends upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from the Communist alliance. Dubček might agree to admit...