Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strauss Waltzes. Even as the two men met, the three Allied powers that control West Berlin sent a note to the Soviet Union. It asked Moscow whether it would be interested in talks between West and East Germany about reducing tensions "in and around Berlin and between the two parts of Germany." The proposal was in reply to Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko's recent statement that Russia would welcome talks about "normalizing" the status of Berlin. The British, French and the Americans made the offer primarily to put the ball back in the Soviets' court, while not endangering...
...thousands of clandestine leaflets, Czechoslovakia's resistance leaders are instructing their countrymen on how to observe the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion. Since an estimated 75,000 Soviet troops are still inside their country, the underground leaders have prudently counseled against massive demonstrations. Instead, they intend to turn the observance into a dignified national "day of shame...
...preparations for suppressing any defiant outbursts. In the first blatantly political arrests since the invasion, police have detained at least 50 persons for printing or distributing "antisocialist" leaflets. Czechoslovakia's Communist Party has issued stern warnings against "provocations." An ominous visitor has arrived in Prague. He is Soviet General Aleksei Epishev, chief political commissar of the Russian army and a member of the Soviet Central Committee, whose job it is to repress political dissent...
Thousands of Soviet and Czechoslovak troops are scheduled on the anniversary date to be on "maneuvers" around Prague and other large cities, obviously poised to intervene in the event that demonstrations get out of control...
Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia's two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, are on "vacation" in the Crimea, where they have met with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and President Nikolai Podgorny. In all likelihood, the Russians openly pressed Husák to sign a statement formally approving the invasion; so far, he has stopped just short of doing that. But undoubtedly, they added a final warning that Moscow has ordered Aug. 21 to be a cool...