Alexander Dubček

Mm-hmm.

Because, uh, Alexander Dubček, he was the prime minister of the, of Czechoslovakia, he want to, he wanted to make a new kind of communism, and he called it communism with a human face.

Hmm.

So I was so excited reading about it while I was in London.

Non-violent resistance was also an important protest tactic during the Cold War.

Aleksandar Dubček, the Czech Communist Party's first secretary, began a series of reforms to communist rule in Czechoslovakia in January 1968 that would become known as the Prague Spring.

And the Soviet Union was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

We don't like democratic reforms or spring.

The party apparatus and its think tanks, the Higher Party School and the Academy of Social Sciences, employed the results of this research in seeking scientific and theoretical solutions to the primary domestic problems associated with the strategy.

It was these think tanks which developed the scenarios for Soviet reforms and trained Soviet and bloc party leaders such as Dubcek in the spirit and demands of the strategy.

The KGB Institute and its research department conducted a number of special studies for the Central Committee.

Among them were studies on new methods of neutralizing political opposition in the Soviet Union and disclosure of state secrets in the interest of strategy, which has an obvious connection with the present openness or glasnost, one feature of which is the disclosure of quantities of accurate information together with quantities of disinformation.

There have been reports of some sporadic fighting and shooting in Prague and other cities, but it appears the invaders are showing some restraint, but at least 23 persons have been reportedly killed and 65 injured in the takeover.

Russian troops seized Czech Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek and other reformist leaders and took them away in an armored vehicle to an unknown destination.

In a radio speech tonight in Prague, Czech President Ludwig Svoboda denounced the occupation as illegal.

President Johnson, in Washington today, said the invasion was contrived and urged the Soviets to withdraw their forces while it was not too late for reason to prevail.

And that's Brezhnev.

As Brezhnev told Dubček when he met with him, he said, "You must understand something.

What we have, we r- we hold.

We give up nothing.