TWO LEADING supporters human rights manifesto are now surveillance in Prague.
Praesidium member Frantisek Kriegel.
authorities are so afraid of him. THE Czechoslovak bureauracy cills Dr Frantisek Kriegel.
Jonist and internationa adventurer, tonist in inis context means Jewish.
Anti-semilisms has boen a feature Stalinist slander since the 1930. It plaved a major part in the Slansky show trial in Czechoslovakia in the 195D.
Al negotiations between the Czechoslovak and Soviet party leaderships just August 1968 invasion Brezhnev called Kriegel 'that Galician Jew who ought to shut up.
The invasion accompanied by a food ofanti semitic propaganda. personal attacks on Kriegel goe the Crechoslovak Parliament felt compelled to protest.
The lahel internationalist activity. served with the Republican armies in Spain in the Civil War as i gnary doctor and croni 1940-45 in a similar capacity with the Chinese Red Araly.
After Communist Party and state SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 11 of the Charter under 24 hour They are Trotskyist Petr Uhl and former In the second of two articles MARK JACKSON looks at Kriegel's career and explains why the apparatuses in various tions concerned with health, he went to Cuba as a health adviser.
Anyone with such a wide international experienos is automatically SISDOCT TO chauvinist Prague bureauerats. From 1966, when he became a member of the party Central Committee, Kriegel began to Play an important politics. He pushed for change the from the very tirst.
At the October 1967 plenum was one of the few who voted to was LEIL political strategy at the The DUELLIS problems KIDNAPPED Aller lie Warsaw He invasion on the night of 20 August 196k, the occupation kidnapped Prague Spring supporters in the Party Presidium to Moscow. Kriegel was one of them Moscow had counted forming a puppet government posithe part in political sacred Pact leading Prague: no longer scarred by Soviet tanks to their liking. this They political by positions. the Czechoslovak , but the repression SUBULLS back in control of the party. million troops, would allow them to rearrange the situation But mais resistance was. so powerful that no-bne was prepared to act as a quisting The 14th party Congress met secretly and ratified Alexander Dubeek's policies and elected Kriegel to the Presidium, At point the kidnapped leaders chemselves to sell Brezhnev's aid.
signed the Moscow May Protocols which bound them to annul the validity of the 14th Congress, take measures curb the mass media, stop attempts to form independent organisations and remove the people most haled Moscow from leading Only Kriegel relused to sign. The Soviet leaders tried to keep him behind in Moscow, but the ather Dubeekites refused to leave without him.
Theit was a report that the Soviet leaders were copsidering WILT Kriegel as a defendant.
Kriegel was one of only four National Assembly deputies 10 vote against the treaty rallying Warsaw pact presence. So he was one of the firs Teaders that Moscow wanted to ger rid of He was removed from the Al the end of March 1969 Crechoslovak cities after a Czechoslovak ice bockey tean heat the Soviet Union. The incidents were used to force the removal of Dubeek and his leading supporters from the leadership before the reshuffl Moscow pressured the Dubock sites to mtroduce wide restr tions on civil rights and publish LESSIES But Kriegel made a defiant spooch at the Central Committee plenum, defending bis own This accusers of leading the country into disaster The text circulated widely ir Prague and became a political manifesto, calling supporters of the Prague Spring to put an end to the retreat. Kriegel was expelled from the party the following month Since then Kriegel has been active in the socialist opposi tion and was one of the original signatories of Charler 77.
The anti-scruitic attacks have reappeared and so have be references to the 1950g show trials. On 2 March 1977 Radio had been repommended arty membersbit by SHEI Of the defendants, who had heen exposed and convicted as an enemy of socialism, a Zionis and a capita ist agent
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