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What Czechoslovakia Expects from Gorbachev

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Extract

The People of Czechoslovakia Have Now Risen and are determined — as are the people of other socialist countries — to overthrow the hated party leadership. People like Husak, Jakes, Indra, Fojtik, Hofman and others, came to power with the help of Soviet tanks and have been able to maintain themselves at the top until just recently. Only by means of repressions in the style of Brezhnev have they been able to hold on to power for twenty years. They have built up a system of spying and terror which enabled them to uncover and suppress any development of the opposition in the country. They have systematically distorted the facts of the Prague spring and the erstwhile reform movement with lies and unproven assertions.

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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1990

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