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Neither Dubcek was about to do that nor were we about to do that.
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In fact when Chomsky was asked whether he was ever denied entry into a country he said, yes: into Czechoslovakia in 1968, after the Russian invasion, when he wanted to visit his friend Dubcek.
Carlo Strenger: Denying Chomsky Entry: Israel is Heading the Wrong Way 2010
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We have four essays on regimes that might have survived if more statesmanship and shrewdness had been shown by their leaders - the French Empire in 1870, Kerensky in 1917, Dubcek in 1968 and as noted above Allende in 1972-3.
Whoblogging 7 jekesta 2008
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Instead, the Dubcek-led government had simply tried to reform the system by providing more reforms and improvements through people-friendlier governance, administration and an expansion of individual freedoms.
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Although Dubcek stubbornly clung to his belief in reform socialism even after he was consigned to fixing chain saws for the forestry service, others retreated into angry cynicism.
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Like Dubcek, he believed he could save the communist system by reforming it.
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"" What's the difference between Gorbachev and Dubcek? '' one joke asked.
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Naive until the end, Dubcek was convinced that he could get the Soviet leaders to accept Czechoslovakia's transformation "" on civilized terms. ''
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In neighboring Poland, students took to the streets, chanting "" Poland needs its own Dubcek. ''
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Like Dubcek, he proved instead that it couldn't be reformed and remain communist.
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