Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
WI the 1968 Warsaw Pact intervention had been directed against Romania as well as Czechoslovakia?
Erm, why exactly?WI the 1968 Warsaw Pact intervention had been directed against Romania as well as Czechoslovakia?
Erm, why exactly?
The Romanians had been assiduously ignored ever since the early sixties, when the USSR decided they were too reactionary even for the Warsaw Pact. They were the only large WP member who hadn't denounced Stalin.Because Romania wasnt exactly the most loyal WarPact state. So, the Soviets might decide if they're going to clean up the Czechoslovakia mess, they might as well take care of that as well.
Besides, with a name as yours, shouldnt you have answered something like "the Hindenburg government would never allow it or somesuch?![]()
The Romanians had been assiduously ignored ever since the early sixties, when the USSR decided they were too reactionary even for the Warsaw Pact. They were the only large WP member who hadn't denounced Stalin.
Would you please get a clue?
The Romanians had been assiduously ignored ever since the early sixties, when the USSR decided they were too reactionary even for the Warsaw Pact. They were the only large WP member who hadn't denounced Stalin.
Oh, and BTW, they hadn't even been invited to the invasion they were refusing to join. Just like in the gendarmerie recruitment joke.
The fact is, who are the Soviets going to replace Ceauşescu with? Unlike in Hungary, where you had loads of loyal Muscovites waiting to depose Dubček, the Romanian Party was totally under the control of Ceauşescu and his cronies. Unless Brezhnev becomes even more reactionary that the Prague Spring crisis made him, he's going to find it very hard making Romania adhere to Moscow's line. The Romanians did have a pretty large military at this point, and NATO would be fairly likely to back Bucharest in a way very unlike their reaction to OTL.
Just my personal musings you understand.
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The Soviets could have found a lot of guys willing to serve as leaders of the new Romania.
If USSR intervenes (which seems unlikely, since Ceausescu's reformist speech was clearly inferior to Dubcek's), Ceausescu is f****ed. NATO has nothing to do with this
So what if Dubcek's speech had been a little less reformist? No invasion of Czechoslovakia?