Archives Illuminate Prague Spring, but Public Looks Away From: The Washington Post | Date: August 21, 1998| Author: Peter Finn | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Two comrades were on the phone, with the KGB recording every word, and one of them, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was steamed.

The Prague Spring of 1968 was in full bloom, and in the new openness, someone in the Czech media had dared to call Brezhnev a "Stalinist."

Even general secretaries have feelings. "And what, I might ask, do you say about this?" Brezhnev fumed at Alexander Dubcek, first secretary of the Czech...

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