Together with a group of eight daredevils on Red Square protest immediately after the invasion, the

In mid-July 1968, Leonid Brezhnev sat over notepaper and wrote with his own hand Alexander Dubcek, "Sasha, I'm sitting here and it's late at night ... I want to now deal with you, but alas, i phone to contact you it's too late. I want to transfer odd lots my thoughts on paper and not the power to override the smoothing formulas ... "In fact, the letter originated in the afternoon and it dictated the entire Politburo.
Apparatchiks should carefully consider when to choose when addressing Sasha and Alexander. A few weeks later, in the middle (of August), Brezhnev came to impersonal formal language. Just before the invasion Brezhnev weighed down by his doctors language falters in diction, speaks in high tones, occasionally odd lots touches to tears. There are early signs of senility later.
The occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, the terms of the Warsaw Pact troops completely different event than as we know it - even though it took place at the same time and same place. And it must be said that a completely different storyline features today.
Lower ranks on the other hand mostly remembered for "Nazran and ungrateful Bohemia", who looked as if through them and probably forgot who is actually liberated. Many still in the 90s spoke to the newspaper that the Czechs should apologize. For what? Yet for terrorizing Russians Czech legionaries in of 1918.
Russian journalist Leonid Šinkarjov in the book "All odd lots I almost forgot ..." explains that most of the Russian public odd lots believes the official Soviet propaganda about brotherly assistance in practice today. "We identify with the infallible and always spavedlivou power. It is suspicious to everything odd lots that surrounds us, what ever lurking about what they robbed us. He has longstanding feeling that the rest of us, humiliate them, and we have to sweeten it." odd lots
"I saw the city nor the people, my thoughts were just objects ... I was angry that the corridors are so narrow and difficult odd lots to pass will be here with tanks." The General was of course referring to the streets of Prague - and his fears were in place.
Czechs still appreciate how easy it could be to face the invasion, at least in the early days. The Soviets battled from the beginning with enormous logistical difficulties. Deputy Commander for frontline base Levčenko could not sleep because of the fuels, all of which were consumed on the first day, and it took forever for the tank came from Dresden and Breslau: "Fortunately, no one knew that the tanks in cities two to three days could not move on . "
Major General Ljachovskij underwent a series of conflicts, including Afghanistan and Chechnya, but the worst is he talking about the invasion of Czechoslovakia: "You know what shocked odd lots us the most? Talking odd lots to someone, and he looks at you like the finished zero, you are to him, civilized man, a sort of creature, perhaps not even the third, but the ten digits. Nobody! "
When you say the protectorate somewhere came the German people were jumping up and built to attention, just to give him something nepřelítlo through the nose. And now here when you walk into the store saleswoman you perceive you simply do not exist. If we did not shoot forbidden, or else I would keep - General testified Šinkarjovovi.
Although most of the occupants of the Prague Spring peering from the position of elder brother who had to moralize the younger, odd lots were not they all like. Several individuals were found already in the late 80s had the courage to apologize: "Forgive us, Prague. Not me, but all of us who attacked odd lots you, "said the author in autumn 1989 paratrooper Nefedov.
General odd lots Majorova recalled how in (August) "imitated" execution trio of journalists Ostrava newspaper. "I was ordered to shoot you or hang themselves," he told the two men and one woman. Thirty years later, in 1998, through Šinkarjova pleaded: "Ms. Nemcova, Mr. Kubicki, Nelepko sir, I beg you, me, old man, forgiveness for trauma odd lots I caused you."
Together with a group of eight daredevils on Red Square protest immediately after the invasion, they form a "friends of Czechoslovakia" special group of people. What unites them altogether admiration for the idea of socialism with a human face, which was seen as the prototype odd lots of perestroika, and also that further development in Czechoslovakia peering with considerable dose of naivete.
"Those people odd lots were tuned to the Moscow, Soviet, wanted to be with us, but we - idiots! - We drove them out, and thereby odd lots destroy himself. We have betrayed friends," said the economist, author and journalist odd lots Gennady Lisičkin, which in the 60s repeatedly met with Otto Sike and other Czechoslovak reformers.
"Did you think when you ruled that you can do all the things you like," he spoke after the invasion Brezhnev to Dubcek's advisers Bohumil Simon. "That was your major mistake. Even I can not do what I want."
It is ironic that something just reproached Brezhnev Czechoslovak Communists, who were the first in the Eastern bloc voluntarily exposed themselves to public scrutiny and began quietly admit the possibility that they could surrender monopoly power. Moscow simply odd lots could not understand the popularity odd lots of authentic leaders other than as arbitrary and moral lapse.
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