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...attack on "the revanchists of Bonn" in recent issues of Pravda lends further credence to their argument. Moscow seems to be using the German menace to scare its allies back into the fold. The device may be effective, but it clearly seeks unity at the cost of greater East-West tension. Another factor that confirms Russian determination to keep its satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border...
...Soviet Union itself has openly recognized the problem. In a long commentary, Pravda admitted that "many people, including Communists in fraternal parties," did not agree with the Soviet Union's action in Czechoslovakia. Pravda put the blame on the inability of outsiders to perceive that a "quiet counterrevolution" had, in fact, been going on in Czechoslovakia. One must not wait, wrote Pravda, "for the shooting of Communists and the appearance of gallows before going to the aid of the adherents of socialism." Such tortuously dogmatic reasoning was apt to exacerbate rather than calm the anger of Communists abroad...
...grapple with the hard truth that many of their old assumptions and priorities no longer applied. The Soviet Union reacted angrily last week to the U.S. State Department's judgment that the events of August had drastically altered the balance of power in Europe. The U.S., said Pravda, was merely warmongering. The fact is, however, that the balance of power has indeed been dangerously tipped by the massive infusion of Soviet troops and tanks into Central Europe at a point where NATO and Warsaw Pact borders meet. Even more important, the delicate psychological balance between the two superpowers...
...moved the men in the Kremlin to desperate reaction against Czechoslovakia and perhaps Rumania. Their responses are clearly those of fearful men, and in them is exposed not the Soviet Union's strength but its weakness. It was almost with compassion that a Czechoslovak editorialist in Bratislava Pravda, before the censorship closed down on him, observed that "not Czechoslovakia, but the great power Russia, has arrived at the crossroads of history. It arrived with tanks, troop carriers and hungry and grimy soldiers who failed to understand why they were sent. Let us remember the philosopher who said...
...sight from the centers of Czechoslovakia's cities, only to be replaced by hundreds of grim, brutal KGB (secret police) agents flown in from Moscow to manage and monitor the country's life. Liberal Czechoslovak officials were soon being removed from their posts, and from Moscow Pravda demanded the "liquidation" of 40,000 "counter-revolutionaries...