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USSR's control over Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakia 1968 (Prague Spring)
Socialism with a human face. To earn the right to power by responding to peoples wishes.
Reasons for Uprising
- Freedom of speech - when indipendant people had this liberty
- Wanted political freedom
- workers wanted a say
- Economy
- Forced to produce goods for USSR
- Low standards of living
What Happened
Janurary 1968 - Dubcek replaced Novotny
Reforms - (keep communsim, allied with USSR, stay in Warsaw pact)
- de-centralize industry (remove state control)
- allow public meetings
- abolsih press cencorship
- revive parliament
- allow other parties
- trade unions <- trade with west
June 1968 - Soviet Response
- Troops from Poland, Hungary, Eastern Germany, Bulgaria, and USSR invade.
- Czech's try passive resistance
- Dubcek eventually forced to reverse reforms
- he was replaced by Husak (pro-Soviet)
Reasons for USSR intervention
- Dubcek wouldn't be able to control demands for more freedom
- Other Eastern European countries may follow suit
- communist authority eventually destroyed
- Czechoslovakia may ally with Romania and Yugoslavia (both communist) and break iron-curtain
- other communist leaders urged action
Western Response
- Detente - didn't want to interfere
Results
East/West Relations
- West Protested - move towards detente continued
Czechoslovakia
- return to strict communist rule
- people still wanted Dubcek's reforms.
Eastern Europe
- no variation in communism
- fear of Warsaw pact used against them
- dislike of Brezhnev Doctrine
Brezhnev Doctrine
- forces 'hostile to socialism (communism)' which was capatalism <- It was the duty of communist countries to intervene to save communist governments.
- Angered Yugoslavia, Romania, China
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