http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/andrew_kopkind en http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/08/czech-occupation-prague http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2008/08/czech-occupation-prague Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:28:48 GMT Andrew Kopkind The Warsaw Pact's occupation of Czechoslovakia from 21 August 1968 shocked many in the west who had hoped that the country was developing a more market-oriented socialism acceptable to the Soviet Union. This report from Prague by Kopkind, an American correspondent on the NS, reflected the ambiguities of its aftermath. It took many months before the Kremlin was able to consolidate its rule through a new, hardline communist regime.

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