Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1977 Russia has ordered four waves of price increases covering everything from books and cut glass to gasoline, plane fares and chocolate. Last July Soviet cars jumped 18% and carpets and restaurant meals rose 50%. Czechoslovakia lifted its rate for children's clothing, fuel, postage and rents, while Hungary raised the price of bread, flour, sugar and some meats by up to 50%. The quintessential Hungarian paprika rose...
Antidissident activity has also been heavy lately in other East bloc states, most notably Czechoslovakia. There, the particular target of Party Chief Gustav Husak's secret police is the movement that has grown over the past three years around Charter 77, a human rights manifesto signed by 1,000 people. Last month six Charter 77 organizers, among them Playwright Vaclav Havel, received sentences of up to five years for "subversion of the republic." Since then more than 25 Charter 77 signers have been hauled in for questioning on various trumped-up charges, including attempts to blow up a Prague...
...arrests and trials in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have fostered a new spirit of unity among East bloc dissidents, who have launched a coordinated attempt to defend one another...
Following the trial, Sakharov wrote an open letter to Charter 77 and KOR activists calling for the "unification of our struggle for human rights in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union...
...Shot in Czechoslovakia last summer, this three-hour film is remarkably exact in mood, feeling and physical trappings...