Word: hus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Invasion fears were hardly allayed by the truculence of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák's 79-page keynote speech. With Brezhnev looking on in approval, Husák declared that "anti-socialist forces -supported and instigated by the enemies of socialism from abroad-are attempting to bring about a counterrevolutionary reversal in this fraternal socialist country [Poland]." Invoking the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine that was used to justify the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Husák warned ominously that "the protection of the socialist system is . . . the joint concern of the states of the socialist community...