https://puckbuddys.com/2015/03/01/diplomatic-dispatches-czech-style-best-style/ Boys Who Like Boys Who Like Hockey Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://puckbuddys.com/2015/03/01/diplomatic-dispatches-czech-style-best-style/#comment-23575 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:04:13 +0000 http://puckbuddys.com/?p=12975#comment-23575 This subject has a long, fascinating, and sometimes tortured history–both on and off the ice! For some historical perspective, see “The (Inter-Communist) Cold War on Ice: Soviet-Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Politics, 1967-1969,” which presents new evidence (from Russian, Czech, US, Canadian, and other sources and archives) on the role of ice hockey in the Soviet Union’s crushing of the Prague Spring when it invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and later, in the spring of 1969, used Czechoslovak protests/celebrations when the Czechoslovak hockey team defeated the hated Soviets at the ice hockey world championships as an excuse to further crack down on reform and to “normalize” the situation. The working paper, part of the ongoing “Cold War on Ice” history project and featuring an essay by the noted Czech scholar Oldrich Tuma, is free to download at
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/CWIHP_working_paper_69_soviet-czechoslovak_ice_hockey_politics_web_0.pdf

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