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DDR: Prague Spring

The Prague Spring (1968)

On the night of 20 to 21 August 1968 move troops five Warsaw Pact countries in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) a. So that as the "Prague Spring" reform attempts designated the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia are forcibly terminated. The First Secretary of the Party, Alexander Dubcek, was arrested with the entire Politburo and taken to the Soviet Union. On 26 August 1968 they have in the "Moscow Protocol" promise the return of the reforms. Dubcek is then sold in April 1969 in favor of a pro-Moscow successor.
on Following the election of the reformist Communist Party leader Dubcek to the fifth January 1968 will be launched in Czechoslovakia at once political and economic reforms. Trade unions and cultural organizations receive more autonomy, the censorship is lifted. The leadership of the Communist Party remains untouched. Propagated by the Dubcek "socialism with a human face" to see many reform communists as evidence of the possibility of a third way, that individual freedoms may be granted under communism.

is in the eyes of the Soviet Union, the Prague Spring, however, a danger to the unity of the Eastern bloc dar. The Socialist Unity Party (SED) has attacked the price of the Czechoslovak comrades from the beginning as a counter-revolutionary and a threat to peace. Above all, the spread of the Prague reform communism, the GDR is feared. The SED defended therefore, the crushing of the Prague Spring. Units of the National People's Army (NPA) are not otherwise contrary to statements by the East German government directly involved in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. You pay merely support and backup tasks, and remain, apart from individuals and small groups on the territory of the GDR. When, after 21 August 1968 comes in the GDR, demonstrations and distribution of leaflets, the protests are suppressed by the security organs of the GDR.