Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia, Tito's old guerrilla system has been unobtrusively infused with new life. Groups of young men disappear from their villages for a few days into the mountains, where old partisans and army experts show them the location of arms caches, teach them how to use the weapons and instruct them in the use of radio transmitters. In addition, thousands of workers are being organized into irregular militia at their plants. All told, the Yugoslavs could probably put about one million men into their rugged, forbidding hills to harass any invader with guerrilla...
Germinal Heresy. The Yugoslavs take pride in the fact that they survived Soviet pressures before. In 1948, after Tito resisted Russian designs to dictate his country's political and economic policies, the Soviets kicked Tito out of the world Communist movement. In an effort to discredit him at home, the Soviets unleashed vitriolic propaganda attacks against him. They sought to intimidate the Yugoslavs by instigating some 1,500 incidents along the country's eastern border. Stalin sent Tito a letter containing a threat that he has not forgotten. "We think Trotsky's political career is sufficiently instructive...
Despite the Soviet harassment, Tito and his people did not cave in. What is more, Tito refused to denounce his brand of Marxism. Instead, he boldly proclaimed the germinal heresy that plagues the Soviet Union to this day. It is that each country has the right to find its own way to socialism-a heresy that the Czechoslovaks took further in terms of granting personal and press freedom than Tito did. As a result, the Soviet leaders, though they came to a sort of modus Vivendi with Tito 13 years ago, rightfully point to him as the originator...
Already Hurt. There was some suspicion that Tito was overdramatizing the present Soviet threat for purely domestic reasons. A common enemy is about the only thing that will get Yugoslavia's five ethnic groups to stop their bickering, and for once, they are uncharacteristically quiet. Also, Tito used the emergency to put into uniform some of the student leaders who had been agitating for liberal reforms of Yugoslav society. Still, in the view of the Yugoslav officials, a certain amount of anxiety is justified...
...Alexander Dubček, it seemed to be a somewhat more pleasant journey to Moscow than his last one-when he went as a virtual prisoner of Soviet commanders who had invaded his country a few days earlier. Instead of being whisked secretly onto an airplane, Dubček last week chatted amiably in the Prague airport lounge with a group of his Czechoslovak colleagues. They had come to see Dubček, Premier Oldřich Cerník and Deputy Premier Gustav Husák off for another round of talks in the Kremlin. But throughout the pleasantries...