Word: prchlik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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's frontier with West Germany was inadequately defended. But the Czechoslovaks agreed to transfer Lieut. General Václav Prchlik from his party post as chief of security for the army back to strictly military duties. The Russians had accused Prchlik, who recently demanded revisions in the Warsaw Pact command, of leaking the pact's military secrets. He did not lose his army rank...