Word: bratislava
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elsewhere in Czechoslovakia, there were both peaceful protests and violent riots. The situation was relatively calm in Bratislava, the scene of severe fighting in 1968, because police allowed the inhabitants to place flowers on the spots where a young Slovak had been killed by the invading Soviet tanks. In Brno, however, two consecutive nights of skirmishes left three demonstrators dead and at least 30 gravely injured...
...President Ludvik Svoboda, returned last week from an eight-day meeting with Soviet officials in the Crimea. They were probably exposed to some of the same demands tor strict party control that awaited Dubček last year at the showdown sessions in Cierna and Bratislava. More ominously, Soviet troops were reported to be conducting large scale maneuvers in Poland and East Germany along their frontiers with Czechoslovakia. Within the country, where the occupation forces have recently swelled to at least 100,000 Russian troops, armored units were said to be on the move in Moravia and Bohemia...
...spontaneous outburst of regional pride, Czechs paraded through the snowy streets of Prague, waving the red and white flag of their native province of Bohemia. Simultaneously, Slovak patriots hoisted the white-blue-red banner of Slovakia over the battlements of the hilltop castle that frowns down on Bratislava, the old provincial capital of Slovakia...
Next morning, when the country's leaders took a train to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, another crowd of 10,000 broke police lines, scattered the band and the honor guard, and mobbed the railway station, shouting: "Long live Dubcek!" "Long live Svoboda...
...Confession. Wherever their curiosity led them, newsmen found evidence of direct Soviet meddling in Czech government affairs. A former Novotný security chief admitted to them that "26 Soviet advisers were active in all departments" of his secret police. The head of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia's Bratislava branch told them that the Russians had engineered his arrest in 1949, then drugged him to make him confess. The most explosive charge of all concerned the death of Czechoslovakia's last non-Communist leader, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, whose "suicide" was announced shortly after the Communists seized power...