Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of Prague's short-lived Springtime of Freedom have long since been silenced. Alexander Dubček is variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...felt oppressed by the urbanized and sophisticated Czechs, who outnumber them by nearly 3 to 1. Hoping to enhance his support at home, Dubček proposed self-rule as a means of alleviating the old Slovak grievances. At first, the Soviets, who earlier had threatened to break off Slovakia and incorporate it into the Soviet Union, opposed the federal system. They changed their minds when they realized that the reorganization would provide an opportunity to plant in the new posts men who are more likely to do their bidding than the officials in the former government...
Preference for Realists. The initial Czechoslovak reaction to federalization was favorable. In a 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...
...G.S.T. was Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's answer to Czecho slovakia, as speakers at last week's rally in East Berlin made plain. The contagious enthusiasm of the young Czechoslovaks for liberalization sent a chill down Ulbricht's spine. His response was direct: to bring his own teen-agers out of the coffee shops in what amounts to a junior branch of the Volksarmee. G.S.T. provided a handy vehicle for just that. Linked with the party since its founding in 1952, it was taken over by the Defense Ministry in 1956. It remained little more than...