Fiftieth anniversary of
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia seems to be rather muted. Amongst Russians, there's widespread ignorance of the move by
Brezhnev to end
Dubček's limited programme of political reforms known as the
Prague Spring.
To paraphrase
Václav Havel: this is no time for forgetting; Dubček's aims might be seen as minimal and non-threatening now, but the Soviet response reveals a lot about Russia's obsession with the 'near abroad' - those neighbouring states both Putin and the Soviets viewed as a special sphere where influence and control were, and
still very much are, central to Russian power.
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