Talk:Prague Spring

I do not think the military role of Czechoslovakia was that hight, neither was fear of Germany. There were no Soviet soldiers stationed here during height of Cold War, until they come in 1968.

However should Czechoslovakia go away from old model this would encourage other (quite unstable) countries in the region and that would be end of Soviet domination here. Pavel Vozenilek 05:43, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Role of the West

While the West didn't went into global or limited war over Czechoslovakia they did help in certain way.

After Soviet occupation countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, etc allowed emigrants from Czechoslovakia to get work permit immediatelly and automatically. This was really great help for over 100,000 of emigrants. The border between Czechoslovakia and the West was de-facto open for several months and many people used this opportunity. Those were usually high qualified and active: Czechoslovakia had lost a lot of potential in this brain drain.

Such openess was not seen before and got stopped later. Pavel Vozenilek 08:27, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Help for Hitler

This cannot be written here; it is a lear-cut speculation. Some Soviet idiot could have said that, but it was hardly a serious reason. mikka (t) 01:33, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

From what I read Soviet Union really did offer support in 1938, knowing it is just gesture (and with possible hope of keeping those capitalists one against another longer). Problems of logistics were so severe that even plans of army of Czechoslovakia to move into mountains in Slovakia, to fight from there, has shown impossible.

About keeping defense line: I think worries about /political/ development were far more important than military ones. Pavel Vozenilek 02:47, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What you are talking about is a cabaret joke, I think. Some comedian made a stage reference to the slowness of soviet bureaucracy alleging that the 1968 prague invasion was in fact the realization of a 1938 czech plea that the soviets help them against the nazi german invasion - but it took 30 years for the soviet authorities to process and approve the request... 195.70.32.136 10:54, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Soviet Union army or Warshaw Pact

Just FYI: wast majority of armed forced were Soviet. Hungarians, East Germans and Poles sent some units to border areas, activity of Bulgarians was only symbolical. I could dig the numbers. Pavel Vozenilek 08:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

If you would be so kind, I am sure many would appreciate just that. Especially the numbers, unit names and their assignments from East Germany. Kar98 21:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, troops came from East Germany, but they were Soviet and not East German. Research done 1995 proved that no German troops crossed the border, even though the East German leadership stated something else 1968. - Alureiter 01:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Information about reaction on Finland

Taken from: Eino Jutikkala, Kauko Pirinen: Dějiny Finska (Czech: History of Finland), translation by Lenka Fárová, 2001 ISBN 80-7106-406-8. Original: Suomen historia (Finnish: History of Finland), 1999.

Part Česko-Finské vztahy během 20. století (Czech: Czech-Finnish relations during 20th century) written by Luboš Švec.

Please, use it, when you create a list of sources and the mention about the reaction in Finland will be

Music - 10,000 times

"It has been played over 10,000 times since its creation." - Does this have any verifiability; also, is the number of times a composition has been played really relevant anyway? Krupo 14:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Merging the socialism with human face

I support merging absolute majority of content, keeping the "human face ..." article with short sentence what it means and link to main article (here). This article should be also splitted to Prague Spring period itself, the occupation and the post-occupation parts to avoid current clutter. Pavel Vozenilek 17:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. From what I can find, Dubcek used the phrase for the first time on July 27, 1968, in K otázkam obrodzovacieho procesu v KSČ. We could also include the November student strike slogan/jab at Husak - "socialism with goose-flesh."

As for splitting, are you thinking Prague Spring (reform period), Prague Spring (occupation) and Prague Spring (post-occupation) with Prague Spring as a summary and disambiguation page? Also sounds fine. I'm sure it won't be difficult to fill three pages. Can you think of any sources for more Public Domain photos?-- TheMightyQuill 10:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)