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S/P/506. Why did Warsaw Pact intervene in Czechoslovakia in 1968 but not in Poland in 1980?

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2011
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The paper looks at the intervention of the Soviet Union into Czechoslovakia in 1968 examining political situation around the event, exploring its difference from the situation in Poland of 1980, defining the features of the Solidarity movement and the Prague Spring movement, and discussing the foreign policy of the USSR with regard to the Socialist states.

 

KEYWORDS: Warsaw Pact, Soviet Union, intervention into Czechoslovakia, Prague Spring, Solidarity, Poland,