2. Why was there opposition to Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia, 1968?
In 1968, the Soviet government was again faced with a challenge to its rule. Khrushchev was no longer in power - now the leader was Lenoid Brezhnev; however as you will see he was also prepared to use the Soviet army to put down opposition to Soviet style communism. Czechoslovakia had been economically successful before the Second World War; it had also been a democracy before the war. Soviet rule, bringing with it...