Abstract
Abstract This year might yet turn out to be the watershed of the decade in the political life of Czechoslovakia. The Charter 77 civil rights movement signals a new period in postinvasion developments. Things will never be the same again. In April 1969, Gustav Husak ascended to power by donning the mantle of the Communist Party's First Secretary. Alexander Dubcek was shunted to the first of a series of increasingly meaningless positions, a demotion from which he never politically recovered. Husak was determined to deliver where Dubcek didn't: to fill the military occupation with appropriate political stuffing, to undo all the achievements of the Prague Spring.
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