Ondrej Matejka, first deputy director of Prague's Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, said the memory of the invasion endured in the Czech Republic. Matejka said working through the events of had lost none of its relevance — especially with new files constantly appearing in the former state security archives of the CSSR and neighboring states in the Soviet sphere. State security in East Germany GDR , in particular, had been closely monitoring Czechoslovakia since the spring of , and had collected photos and reports from collaborators.
Historians who have reviewed the CSSR's state records in Prague and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, believe that the tentacles of the secret agencies extend to the present day. Last year, they published files stating that the current prime minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis, had worked as an unofficial state security agent beginning in His lawsuit against the historians who revealed this was dismissed. He added that Babis had worked for a state foreign trade company in the CSSR and, after the Velvet Revolution, had managed to forge a successful entrepreneurial career with the help of the connections he had made.
Last year, the multibillionaire's party won nearly 30 percent of the nationwide vote. Other stations went underground and succeeded in broadcasting for several days before their locations were discovered.
Dubcek and other government leaders were detained and taken to Moscow. Meanwhile, widespread demonstrations continued on the street, and more than protesters were shot to death by Warsaw Pact troops.
Many foreign nations, including China, Yugoslavia, and Romania, condemned the invasion, but no major international action was taken. On August 27, Dubcek returned to Prague and announced in an emotional address that he had agreed to curtail his reforms. Hard-line communists assumed positions in his government, and Dubcek was forced gradually to dismiss his progressive aides. He became increasingly isolated from both the public and his government. Dubcek was later expelled from the Communist Party and made a forest inspector based in Bratislava.
In , as communist governments collapsed across Eastern Europe, Prague again became the scene of demonstrations for democratic reform. Husak resigned, and for the first time in nearly two decades Dubcek returned to politics as chairman of the new parliament, which subsequently elected playwright and former dissident Vaclav Havel as president of Czechoslovakia.
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Given the escalating U. Although the Soviet crackdown on Czechoslovakia was swift and successful, small-scale resistance continued throughout early while the Soviets struggled to install a stable government. Finally, in April of , the Soviets forced Dubcek from power in favor of a more conservative administrator. In the years that followed, the new leadership reestablished government censorship and controls preventing freedom of movement, but it also improved economic conditions, eliminating one of the sources for revolutionary fervor.
Czechoslovakia once again became a cooperative member of the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was significant in the sense that it delayed the splintering of Eastern European Communism and was concluded without provoking any direct intervention from the West. Repeated efforts in the UN Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the attacks met with opposition from the Soviet Union, and the effort finally died away.
The NATO allies valued the idea of a lessening of tensions, and as a result they were determined not to intervene. Still, the invasion forced U. President Lyndon B. Johnson to cancel a summit meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. As it turned out, the progress on arms control agreements were only delayed by a few years in the aftermath of the Prague Spring.
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