Forty years ago, on August 21, 1968 the armed force of the Warsaw Pact entered Czechoslovakian territory and put an end to the economic and political liberalization reforms initiated by a moderate Communist leader Alexander Dubcek. Supposedly, it was feared by the Soviet leaders that a liberalized political movement within Czechoslovakia might ultimately lead to a weakening of the Soviet bloc and the Warsaw Pact alike. Also, the Soviet leaders must have been afraid of the so-called spill-over effect that would initiate similar political activities in the remaining states of the Soviet bloc. It was claimed by the Communist propaganda…