Word: svoboda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Soviet viewpoint, the crackdown means that Czechoslovakia is finally getting "normalized." Most tellingly, the government announced that Husak and President Ludvik Svoboda will pay a state visit to Moscow this week, with all the trappings. Ever since Dubcek began his effort to "humanize" Communism, every visit by Czechoslovak officials has been designated merely as a "working" trip. Now having re-established Czechoslovakia as safe Communist territory, the Soviets might even be ready to authorize a reduction of their 85,000-man occupying force...
...brandy, he often talked with local politicians and swapped political jokes with newsmen until 3 a.m. One of Brandt's favorites: After the Soviet-Czechoslovak summit confrontation at Cierna last summer, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev turns to Premier Aleksei Kosygin and asks: "Did you see that beautiful watch Svoboda was wearing?" "No," replies Kosygin...
...ruthless pro-Moscow loyalist, urged that Dubćek and other liberals be placed on trial, perhaps even on charges of treason. The second group, headed by Party Secretary Alois Indra, apparently objected that such kangaroo-court sessions would saddle the regime with a neo-Stalinist label. Ludvik Svoboda, the popular President and elder statesman of Czechoslovakia, reacted to the suggestion of trials by proclaiming: "As long as I am President, there will be no trials...
Absorbing Maneuver. In some ways, their preparations were eerie reminders of the buildup to last summer's invasion. The two top leaders, Party Boss Gustav Husák and President Ludvik Svoboda, returned last week from an eight-day meeting with Soviet officials in the Crimea. They were probably exposed to some of the same demands tor strict party control that awaited Dubček last year at the showdown sessions in Cierna and Bratislava. More ominously, Soviet troops were reported to be conducting large scale maneuvers in Poland and East Germany along their frontiers with Czechoslovakia. Within...
...Svoboda's setting, with Everding's di rection, went far toward explaining the psychological mystery of Wagner's drama of redemption through love. Everding demanded a "moment of existential fright" at the first appearance of the Dutchman's ship. The vessel loomed darkly out of the water like a giant mollusk, brightened only by the Dutchman's pale face leaning over the bow. It dwarfed everything on the stage and threatened to sail straight out into the audience. Svoboda and Everding even had the audacity to stage the finale the way Wagner wrote it (most...