Forever winter in Prague; twenty years after Dubcek's 1968 Spring, spirits are in cold storage. (Alexander Dubcek)

U.S. News & World Report | August 8, 1988| | Copyright

Twenty years after Dubcek's 1968 Spring, spirits are in cold storage

Czechoslovakia has bartered away the legacy of the Prague Spring. The pioneering reformers who anticipated glasnost by 20 years have settled for ample food, job security and weekend cottages in exchange for cultural conformity and political silence. Today, as Mikhail Gorbachev cribs from the blueprints for reform that were mangled by Soviet tanks on Aug. 20, 1968, Czechoslovakia is suspended in neo-Stalinist stagnation.

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