“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible.

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  1. pre-Boomer Marine brat

    Thank you for these. … Early spring 1957, the 14 year-old boy I was then, stood with his family, halfway thru a church service, and gave a rafter-rattling minute of applause. Down front in the sanctuary, the pastor had just introduced a father, mother and two children. They were Hungarian, had just arrived in the States, and our church was sponsoring them. … Today, I suspect that a large majority of those who were born in the USA, know very little about history. Mention George Santayana and they’ll say, “Oh yeah, the Alamo guy.” Quote him (about those who don’t remember history) and they’ll just blink and shrug. … Thank you again.

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