URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/48003
Collection Structure Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcast records >  RFE/RL Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department records >  RFE/RL Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department sound recordings >  Report on Western press coverage following Warsaw Pact invasion
Item Title Report on Western press coverage following Warsaw Pact invasion
Collection Title Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcast records
Broadcaster RFE/RL. Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department
Date Created July 11, 1968
Description The Daily Telegraph reports that, despite Soviet propaganda, it is clear Czechoslovaks oppose the occupation; Guardian, on People’s Militias and the communist party; Christian Science Monitor, that Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr is the first Arab leader to protest the occupation; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on communist reforms and liberalization under Alexander Dubček; Süddeutsche Zeitung, on passive resistance; München Merkur, that Moscow will concede economic reforms; Berliner Morgenpost, that the Soviets plan to install a puppet regime; Spandauer Volksblatt, on the unknown position of students and intellectuals. Also mentioned are Great Britain, Viktor Majewski, Pravda, imperialism, Vienna, Antonín Novotný, Extraordinary Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, United States, Baghdad, Cairo, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Soviet bloc, West Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War I, Kremlin, Ludvík Svoboda, Communist International, Władysław Gomułka, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, de-Stalinization, Walter Ulbricht, János Kádár. Tape label reads: R5294
Language(s) Slovak Czech
Country of Origin Germany
Format Sound Recording
Medium radio programs
Hoover ID 2000c120_a_0009082
Record Number 2000C120.529
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt996nd6jz
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