We were visiting family friends in Diamond Bar Calif.
Folks were playing bridge and I went in and told everyone the Soviets had just invaded Czechoslovakia.
They told me it must be old newsreels. I said no it is happening right now. They all insisted i was nuts then came in and saw that yes it was happening.
They’d better watch their selves cause the bear is growling again and the bear doesn’t like the way they are being treated by their former east european slaves countries.
I remember it well. It was very depressing in the wake of the brief ‘freedom’ the Czechs had been experiencing. It brought back memories of the revolt at Poznan, Poland and resurrected the notion that, being somewhat ethical, the West could never win the cold war.
That notion reached its height at the shootdown decades later of the Korean air liner. How could we be hogtied with morals and expect to defeat an enemy who wasn’t?
Hmm. Does that sound familiar?