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[This is the plan the democrats are pushing for Denver.

“Recreate 68”

granny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7572276.stm

Eyewitness: Prague Spring crushed

Ondrej Neff was a 23-year-old journalist at Czechoslovak Radio at the time of the Soviet-led invasion of his country on 21 August 1968.

Czechs and Slovaks are marking the 40th anniversary of the invasion, when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops, backed by tanks and aircraft, marched in to crush Alexander Dubcek’s liberal reforms, known as the Prague Spring.

Here Mr Neff describes how he helped broadcast news of the invasion. Today he is a freelance journalist, blogger and science fiction writer living in Prague.

I was very young at the time, and I’d only been working for Czechoslovak Radio for two years. The foreign desk was the elite of the radio station, and I was the youngest person there.

I lived quite near the station, about 10 minutes’ walk, so I was one of the first people to arrive. It was shortly after 0200. I’d been woken up by the sound of the aircraft overhead: Antonovs carrying troops. It was a very scary sight - this dark night, and all these planes without lights, like huge dark crosses flying over our heads.

When I got to work there were already about 10 or 15 people there; some of them had been on the night shift of course. We were helpless, because the minister of telecommunications had switched off the radio and television transmitters, but the technicians managed to find a way of broadcasting via the telephone lines.

I can remember the sense of desperation I felt in those early days of the occupation. I felt my future had been lost. But of course hope dies last, and we thought that somehow our political leaders - some of whom had been kidnapped and taken to Moscow - would be able to get through to the Russians.

But none of us really had any illusions. Dubcek wasn’t strong enough as a person to fight against Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who was a dictator in the style of Stalin.

Makeshift studio

I remember very well the face of the first Russian soldier I saw. He was carrying a huge machine gun, and looked like he’d just stepped out of a film about the battle of Stalingrad. He was very dirty, and his face was full of sweat. It was absolutely ridiculous, absolutely absurd.

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Is there no one in the democratic party smart enough to think that “Recreate 68” might have other meanings???

Or was the “take over theme” the real goal all along?

Maybe I am also spooked with the Georgia war, a replay of the old methods of take over by Russia.

Poland is already on the Russian list of countries to squash, is Hungry the next one?

Estonia has been under attack for years.

granny