Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine, Volumes 74-76

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Page 29 - THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS: 1945 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; . . . The purposes of the United Nations are: Article
Page 31 - THE COUNCIL ON MUTUAL ECONOMIC AID (COMECON): APRIL 1960 The governments of the People's Republic of Albania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People's Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Rumanian People's
Page 17 - The class approach to the matter cannot be discarded in the name of legalistic considerations. Whoever does so and forfeits the only correct, class-oriented criterion for evaluating legal norms begins to measure events with the yardsticks of bourgeois law. Such an approach to the question of sovereignty means, for example, that the world's
Page 32 - 2. The Council on Mutual Economic Aid shall 'be based on the principles of the sovereign equality of all the member countries of the Council. The economic and scientific-technical cooperation of the member countries of the Council shall be carried out in accordance with the principles of complete equality of rights, respect for sovereignty and national interests, mutual benefit and comradely mutual aid.
Page 5 - consider it proper for you; you cannot have it, even in your domestic affairs, if we consider it improper, because we have a doctrine of law that says what is yours is mine and what is mine is mine.
Page 23 - The struggle against bourgeois nationalism and the education of the working people in the spirit of proletarian internationalism are inseparably linked to elaborating the class approach to the national question and to problems of world development. This is clearly stated in the resolutions of the 23d CPSU Congress and in the documents of the fraternal parties.
Page 17 - The Communists of the fraternal countries naturally could not allow the socialist states to remain idle in the name of abstract sovereignty while the country was endangered by antisocialist degeneration. The assistance given to the working people of the CSR by the other socialist countries, which prevented the export of counterrevolution from the outside, is in fact a struggle for
Page 17 - Over a long period of time and with utmost restraint and patience, the fraternal Communist Parties of the socialist countries took political measures to help the Czechoslovak people to halt the antisocialist forces' offensive in Czechoslovakia. And only after exhausting all such measures did they undertake to bring in armed forces.