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The Czechoslovakian Crisis 1968
The Prague Spring
A hardline Communist leader is replaced by more liberal Communist leader
- Dubcek
- The Soviets fail to react
Emboldened he embarks on a new model of socialism
- it removed state controls over industry
- allowed freedom of speech.
- Encourage democratic Communism
But
- Stressed that Czechslovakia would stay in the Warsaw Pact.
4 months passed