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In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR

PART 2 by GEORGIA MIRICA Already feeling threatened, the leadership of Romania felt that the military invasion of Czechoslovakia could set a dangerous precedent, feeling themselves targeted in particular: “The regime interpreted as a clear warning the enunciation of the Brezhnev Doctrine–the concept articulated by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that the protection of socialism inContinueContinue reading “In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR”

In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR

PART 1 BY GEORGIA MIRICA Prague Spring refers to a short-lived period of liberalization in the history of communist Czechoslovakia, under the leadership of a newly-elected First Secretary of the Communist Party, Alexander Dubcek. The reform program proposed in April 1968 included granting Slovakia autonomy, providing rehabilitation to citizens that had been victims of severeContinueContinue reading “In Retrospect: Romania’s Role in the Prague Spring of 1968 and Subsequent Relations with the USSR”