← Çekoslovakya'nın Sovyet Öncülüğündeki İşgali, 1968

Sovyetlerin Çekoslovakya'ya askerî müdahalesi 1968 yazında giderek olası hâle geliyordu.

contestedconfidence: moderate

Asserted by two State Department officials in May and July and by Bohlen in writing on 26 July; denied at the President's table on 24 July and by the Prague and Moscow embassies in early August.

Destekleyen ve teyit eden deliller

The Russians must be hesitating. The moment to give them a deterrent signal is therefore now. It will be too late once they cross the border.

Eugene Rostow — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D60, Department of State, 1968-05-10 · source ↗

The possibility of Russian military intervention in Czechoslovakia is a matter of basic concern to the United States. Ambassador Thompson and others think the risk is increasing.

Eugene Rostow — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D67, Department of State, 1968-07-20 · source ↗

I find the military preparations somewhat excessive for a war of nerves, and it could be that in addition to making final preparation for a move into Czechoslovakia the Soviets are preparing for any eventuality which might arise.

Charles Bohlen — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D73, Department of State, 1968-07-26 · source ↗

Çelişen deliller

Ambassador Bohlen said that the Soviets would be reluctant to resort to direct military intervention on the Hungarian pattern, and had, in fact, refrained from doing so against Romania.

Charles Bohlen — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D20, NSC, 1968-04-24 · source ↗

The Soviets will not move militarily against them, I do not think.

Walt Rostow — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D72, White House / NSC, 1968-07-24 · source ↗

Dubcek regime can take considerable credit for saving its skin at Cierna and for staring down the Soviet threat of force.

Jacob Beam — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D77, Embassy Prague, 1968-08-04 · source ↗

Rostow commented that the Soviet decisions at Cierna seemed wise to us, and potentially very important.

Eugene Rostow — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D79, Department of State, 1968-08-19 · source ↗

Bağlam

…Accordingly, the Soviet military units received orders to enter the territory of Czechoslovakia.

Anatoly Dobrynin — FRUS 1964-68 v17 D80, White House, 1968-08-20 · source ↗