notes
- Cze strong democratic background
- but changed to communist because of pressure
- Alexander Dubcek made "socialism with a human face"
- easier communist
- USSR saw as threat
- assisted Dubcek and replaced him
- stayed communist until the Berlin wall fell
Summary
In Czechoslovakia there was an anit-communist movement to join the west. The USSR responded by invading Czechoslovakia. quotes "I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first."-Sheerly Temple sugesive question What if the USSR had let Czechoslovakia change? |