Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however, so when Nikita visited those decadent, bourgeois revisionists, the Czechs, he quaffed Pilsner and instructed his hosts to "give my regards to President Svoboda, with whom I fought...
...merely slipped into town for a "short holiday" and a dip in the healing waters of the local spas. They had to admit soon enough that Kosygin really had come for "a continuation of an exchange of views" on Czechoslovak matters. At the first exchange with Dubcek, President Ludvik Svoboda and other officials, Kosygin reported that their reforms were "meeting with understanding" in Moscow-presumably a reassurance...
...week's end there was dramatic evidence of how far that exploration has already gone. More than 1,000 students poured into the streets of Prague after dark to protest the choice of General Svoboda as President because of his past Soviet ties. Angry and upset, they marched to the Communist Party headquarters and shouted for Alexander Dubček to show himself. It was midnight. In the past, the students would either have been clubbed to the ground or, at the very best, ignored. This time, no one interfered with them. What was more, Debček quickly...
...move to hinder Czechoslovakia, proclaimed its undying "fraternal fidelity" for the Czechoslovak people. When it came time to pick a new President to replace Antonin Novotný, Dubček decided to make a conciliatory gesture to the Soviet Union. At his request, the Central Committee nominated General Ludvik Svoboda, a liberal who enjoys wide prestige among the people and is particularly acceptable to Moscow because he commanded troops that served with the Russian Army in World...
...Svoboda, who at 72 cannot be expected to serve long in the post, predictably announced that Czechoslovakia and Russia would always stand together. At week...