In 1946, the United States began leasing the Ambassador's Residence from the Czechoslovak Government.
This provides a crucial infrastructure with which the Kremlin can monitor and probably influence Czechoslovak affairs.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Many of the Germans had supported Hitler, and thus contributed to the destruction of the pre-war Czechoslovak state.
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During the vulnerable period of Czechoslovak energy supply diversification, hedge against the Soviets' use of economic leverage -- i.e.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Despite these positive developments, several factors give rise to important concerns about the future viability of the present, promising Czechoslovak democracy.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Mr Klaus dominated Czechoslovak, and then Czech, economic policy for almost eight years until the collapse of his government at the end of 1997.
The brutal 1948 and 1968 purges of the Czechoslovak communist party at the Soviets' hands are a significant reason why many former and even current Czechoslovakian communists have opposed Moscow.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Stalin had assured this Soviet control, he believed, by the purge of the initial Czechoslovak communist leadership including the execution of many of the top leaders who had helped the communist party take power.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Free�� Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Stalin had assured this Soviet control, he believed, by the purge of the initial Czechoslovak communist leadership -- including the execution of many of the top leaders who had helped the communist party take power.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Thanks in large part to the character of the Czechoslovak interim government, the balloting there has shaped up as genuinely free and fair, with several democratic groups competing amongst themselves and with the surviving communist party.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Free�� Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Five months after Richard Sacher, the non-communist Minister of the Interior, was assigned the task of bringing the Czechoslovak secret police under democratic control, some progress had been made but much is left to be done.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Free�� Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Five months after Richard Sacher, the non-communist Minister of the Interior, was assigned the task of bringing the Czechoslovak secret police under democratic control, some progress had been made -- but much is left to be done.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
While the Center welcomes the apparently fair and free Czechoslovak elections of 8-9 June 1990, it believes that the United States and other democracies must remember that Czechoslovakia is still in a fragile and perhaps perilous process of institutionalizing democracy.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Free�� Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
While the Center welcomes the apparently fair and free Czechoslovak elections of 8-9 June 1990, it believes that the United States and other democracies must remember that Czechoslovakia is still in a fragile -- and perhaps perilous -- process of institutionalizing democracy.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Free' Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
Because the United Kingdom and France felt a special responsibility for freedom in Czechoslovakia after all, their appeasement of Hitler at the expense of Czechoslovakia had failed and had set the stage for war the Soviet Union and its Czechoslovak allies undertook during 1945-1948 to establish communist rule with even more than the usual stealth and deception.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: ��Free�� Czechoslovakia?: Shadows Over The Transition
As described in the Casey Institute's recent Perspective entitled Watch on the Rhine: German Efforts To Extort the Czechs, Forge Relations With Rogue States Are Ominous Indicators, the ostensible purpose of this accord is to put to rest residual problems stemming from the Nazi invasion and occupation of the Czech Republic and the subsequent, involuntary removal of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovak territory.
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