“There were laws and legislation,” he said. “They were applied. When a demonstration took place without a permit, it was the duty of the police to disperse it. This is done everywhere.” Exactly the problem! In retrospect the Soviets should have perhaps worked with Dubček and helped both themselves and other parties introduce reforms that relaxed the no longer needed strictures imposed in the Stalin years. Dr. King told us “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” It takes a long time for the arc's bend to become visible and we now see the errors the Soviets made in 1968 caught up with them twenty years later. One injustice was overcome but from the detritus even greater have emerged and the arc resumes its glacial anfractuous Odyssey.
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