Prague Spring from "summary" of Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
The Prague Spring was a brief moment of hope in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, when the Communist Party leadership attempted to create "socialism with a human face." The reforms introduced by Alexander Dubček, the newly elected party leader, were intended to liberalize the country's political system, allowing greater freedom of speech, assembly, and movement. Dubček's reforms sparked a wave of optimism among the Czechoslovak people, who believed that they were finally on the path to a more open and democratic society. However, this period of liberalization was met with growing opposition from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries, who feared that the reforms in Czechoslovakia would inspire similar movements in their own countries. In August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into Prague, bringing an ...
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