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More timid than the Poles

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On August 21st 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into former Czechoslovakia in an invasion that killed 108 civilians, seriously injured another 500 and resulted in two decades of numbing occupation. With the memory of their own painful history Czech and Slovak leaders could be expected to spearhead a push for a tough European stance on Moscow’s unconfessed invasion of Crimea. Yet Czech and Slovak centre-left leaders have been rather timid.

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