The tremors emanating from Czechoslovakia’s extraordinary wave of reform not only shook the country itself but spread through all of Eastern Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief ...

Brezhnev, Dubcek: Alarmed by KGB feeds from Prague, Brezhnev ordered Warsaw Pact troops to crush Dubcek's ambitions, and this had repercussions—imagine!—in Link House. The next day, All India Radio ...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, the little country that is trying the difficult and perhaps impossible task of combining Communism with freedom, is continuing to stir up resentment and alarm in its Communist ...

1968 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev orders Russian-led Warsaw Pack troops into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, a period of liberalisation under reform-minded leader Alexander Dubcek.

The thaws of spring are never followed by summer, but always by a political winter: Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev, Husák came after Dubcek. Excepting the collapse of Communist rule in the Soviet Union ...

Dubcek's dreams were shattered by Brezhnev and his Warsaw Pact allies in August 1968. But here, in the form and substance of Gorbachev, was a Soviet leader who seemed ready and able to carry that ...

Mr. Brezhnev died on Nov. 10, 1982, and his successor, Mr. Andropov, ... As the daily demonstrations grew, Alexander Dubcek, the reformist leader of the Prague Spring of 1968, ...

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But Brezhnev had nothing against the KGB’s established network of “official” informers that Stalin and his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, had passed down, which continued to stamp out ...