Word: ek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brezhnev and the other party bosses had summoned Czechoslovak Party Leader Alexander Dubček to Warsaw to explain his policies, but Dubcek politely declined. Instead, he offered to meet separately in Prague with each one of the Communist leaders. Dubcek feared going to any meeting where the other leaders might join in browbeating him, was especially wary of being lured out of the country at a time when his reformist regime seemed in peril. After Dubček's refusal, the other bosses obviously decided that they had reason enough to meet by themselves...
...country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes; later, more than 30,000 more Czechoslovaks signed up. The document is designed to build up sentiment for a purge of hard-liners at a special party Congress to be held on Sept. 9, when Dubček's reformers hope to sack most of the remaining followers of deposed, pro-Stalinist President Antonin Novotn...
...variously numbered between 3,000 and 10,000 men. Dubcek had invited the Warsaw Pact forces to the country for "staff exercises" as proof of his loyalty to the Communist bloc; they were supposed to withdraw by the end of June, but did not. Throughout the week, Dubček was reportedly on the phone to Moscow to find out why. One report had Brezhnev bluntly telling him that the Soviet troops were needed to prevent the overthrow of Communism in Czechoslovakia...
Only a few months ago, such scenes would have been almost unthinkable in Czechoslovakia, where questioning and dissent were rigidly suppressed by the strict, doctrinaire regime of Antonín Novotnŷ. Today, under the new reforms of Alexander Dubček, they are commonplace. Life in Czechoslovakia rings with the sounds of freedom. Despite a constant threat of reprisals from the Soviet Union, the political change has not only transformed public life but worked a captivating magic on the people's mood. It has made Czechoslovakia the most contagiously exciting country in Eastern Europe-and perhaps...
...diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn out to be an East German Alexander Dubček...