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SINCE the party cannot change the people," Alexander Dubček once said, "it must itself change." One year ago this week, Dubček's historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in the direction of that change was suddenly and brutally undone. On a quiet August night, some 200,000 Soviet troops, with token support from East German, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian forces, crossed into Czechoslovakia. Whatever Dubček's miscalculations in conducting the most democratic experiment in Communism's history, he was undoubtedly right about the desires of the people. They...
...Despite the underground call for a show of only passive resistance, there is a danger that the anniversary may turn into something considerably more violent. Potentially, it is the most explosive time in Czechoslovakia since the invasion itself. After the Moscow-dictated dismissal of the liberal Alexander Dubček last April, the nation gradually sank into the depths of despair and sullenness. The factory workers who a year ago volunteered for weekend "Dubček shifts" without pay, in order to boost production, are today blatantly loafing on the job and pilfering supplies. The slowdown has made a mockery...
...unhappy Czechoslovaks have much to protest. Since stern Gustav Husák replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek as party chief in April, the country has been gripped by an ever-tightening rule. In a swift series of purges, the liberals of the Dubček era have been removed from the Central Com mittee. Among those dropped was Ota Sik, who earned Moscow's ire as the architect of Dubček's economic reforms...
Partly Line. Under severe pressure from the Soviet-supported conservatives, Husak has dismantled the last vestiges of Dubček's promising "Springtime of Freedom." The press, which was free and sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
Despite his age, Grigorenko cedes nothing to his associates in his distaste for autarchy or disdain for government attempts to muzzle dissent. When his old army comrades were about to invade Czechoslovakia, Grigorenko paid a call at the Czechoslovak embassy to advertise his approval of the Dubček liberalization program. At the funeral of Writer Aleksei Kosterin (TIME, Nov. 22), a longtime friend, he turned his eulogy at Moscow's crematory hall into an eloquent attack on "totalitarianism that hides behind the master of so-called Soviet democracy...