Why Did the Russians March?

Why Did the Russians March?

Our readers will have noticed that my comment in the last issue concerning Czechoslovakia was already dated by the time the issue came out. My apprehensions about Russian intervention were, alas, not dated.

To a limited extent, the Russians have succeeded in their objectives—which were, first, to bring “democratization” to a halt and, second, to bring Czechoslovakia back to a dependent position within the Warsaw Pact economic system.


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