Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
An Embarrassing Anniversary
By Adam Michnik, Translated from the French by Olivia Emmet
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the events of 1968 raises troubling questions. What was the Prague Spring? A moment of liberation or the result of Communist intrigue? A reform aimed at destroying the Communist dictatorship or a masquerade staged to save it? And who were the people responsible for the Prague Spring? Were they organizers of a revolt against totalitarian oppression or foxes who changed their skins according to circumstance?
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