Question

How did the soviet union's actions in Czechoslovakia in 1968 differ from its actions in eastern Europe prior to 1964?

Answer 1

actions in Czechoslovakia in 1968

The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia, during the Cold War, which lasted from January 5 until August 20, 1968, when the country was invaded by the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies ( except Romania).

This movement sought to progressively modify totalitarian and bureaucratic aspects that the Soviet regime had in this country and move towards a non-totalitarian form of socialism, legalizing the existence of multiple political parties and unions, promoting freedom of the press, of expression, the right to strike , etc. It ended in August 1968, when the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and put an end to the process of political opening.

actions in eastern Europe prior to 1964

During the Cold War, the Eastern Bloc, also called the Soviet bloc, communist bloc, eastern bloc, socialist bloc and socialist bloc, was the set of socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe led by the Soviet Union and facing the Western Bloc, composed mainly of the United States and Western Europe.

It existed between the end of the Second World War (1945) and the end of the Cold War with the official dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, accepted by the Soviet Union, at the Prague meeting on July 1, 1991. Finally the Union itself Soviet ceased to exist as a country on December 25, 1991.

The so-called socialist bloc comprised the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (hence the name 'Eastern Bloc'), east of the Iron Curtain (with the exception of Yugoslavia), economically linked by the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) ) and militarily by the Warsaw Pact.