Two Questions About Aleksandr Dubcek...

[Cheung Mo]

1. Why did the U.S. do so much to help Stalinist bastards like Ceaucescu (whose main problems with the USSR was that he did not feel it was authoritarian enough or that it emphasised the Cult of the Leader sufficiently after Stalin) yet did nothing when Brezhnev suppressed the Prague Spring. Did the American bastards feel that a leader supporting a more authoritarian style of socialism than the one offered by Moscow (if it can even be called socialism) would be easier to control than somebody advocating libertarian and humanistic reforms?

2. Is there any truth to the legend that Boris Yeltsin and his right-wing cronies were responsible for the car crash that killed Dubcek?

[bayano]

i think that the united states quickly realized that the soviet union wasnt really forwarding communist aims in most of the places that it had direct reign. that is, stalinists like ceaucesceau (sp?) werent revolutionaries who threatened capitalism and imperialism's global stranglehold on the world. the bigger problem with the soviets was largely for their support of real revolutionaries that actually did threaten western interests in parts of the world where the soviets had less direct control- most of the third world. besides that, the soviets were a competing superpower, and divisions within the camp were clear assets of the united states

i dont know enough about your second question- forgotten the college and high school papers i wrote on the details of yelstin and the final days of the ussr.

[Wanted Man]

Fun fact: Ceaucescu denounced the crushing of the Prague Spring!

[Cheung Mo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 08:36 PM
Fun fact: Ceaucescu denounced the crushing of the Prague Spring!
I know, but only because Dubcek and Ceaucescu were both opposed to Brezhnev's policies: What your saying is akin to finding leftism and modern Islamism analogous because they're both opposed to American imperialism.

[Guerrilla22]

dubcek was a reformist, who intended to lead the country down a path that would eventually lead to the fall of socilaism in Czechoslovakia, at least that's how the Soviets saw it. Quite a few people often dispute this, but its true. Yugoslavia, who was one of the original members of commintern refused to accept Soviet troops on its territory and thus was kicked out of commintern, but not invaded. It wouldn't make sense that the USSR would go into Czechoslovakia but not Yugoslavia, the only explanation would have to be that the Soviet leadership feared the direction Dubcek was going to send the county in.