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Title: Developments (Ideological/political, socio/economical and geo-political) in Czechoslovakia which led to the invasion by the Soviet Union in 1968
Ideological / Political Development
It has been almost four decades since the invasion of Soviet infiltrated into Wenceslas Square of Czechoslovakia’s capital in order to defeat a resisting movement of reform called the “Prague Spring”. The attempts of Alexander Dubcek in order to create “human face socialism” are something thing that is all the time seen as ideological and or historical predecessor to the reform policies of perestroika and glasnost of Mikhail Gorbachev which took place in the USSR in early 80s (Jones, 1990). 1968 invasion was the event which devastated most of the Socialism’s illusions and the system of the Soviet – together of which happened in the West and Czechoslovakia. It was the year of 1968 when the sudden overwhelming impact of Soviet alliance system took over the steady rotting issue of Romania. It was then that the Prague Spring brought even critical challenge as compared to the challenge of Romania since it took place in an area that was of more importance to Soviet security. Alexander Dubcek’s programme of domestic liberalization of the communist regime of Czechoslovak posed more threat to carryout popular demands in order to gain the same changes in the other countries of East Europe and also some Soviet Union parts. (Jones, 1990)
According to Khrushchev, Warsaw Pact importance was due to his step towards detente with the West. The sole reason for this was to gain another control in the time of cold war. There were good political reasons as well as military reasons behind the formation of such organization by which the new Soviet leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev could take on their own control systems and ideas over the East European countries. In order to keep things together, Stalin utilized his overwhelming and dictatorial character. However