Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine, Volumes 74-76U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 61 pages |
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Page 29 - 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; 3.
Page 29 - The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
Page 15 - ... movement, which is waging a struggle for socialism. This means that every Communist party is responsible not only to its own people but also to all the socialist countries and to the entire Communist movement.
Page 30 - Parties declare that their obligations under international treaties at present in force are not incompatible with the provisions of the present Treaty. Article 8 The Contracting Parties declare that they will act in a spirit of friendship and co-operation...
Page 30 - Treaty, in the exercise of its right to individual or collective self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter...
Page 4 - And when external and internal forces hostile to socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country — a threat to the security of the socialist commonwealth as a whole — this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.
Page 30 - Organization, shall immediately, either individually or in agreement with other Parties to the Treaty, come to the assistance of the state or states attacked with all such means as it deems necessary, including armed force.
Page 3 - Lenin's words, someone living in a society cannot be free of that society, so a socialist state that is in a system of other states constituting a socialist commonwealth cannot be free of the common interests of that commonwealth. The sovereignty of individual socialist countries cannot be counterposed to the interests of world socialism and the world revolutionary movement.
Page 33 - Fraternal contacts expand and multiply the possibilities of every socialist country. The participants in the conference expressed their firm resolve to do everything in their power for deepening all-round cooperation of their countries on the basis of the principles of equality, respect for sovereignty and national independence, territorial integrity, fraternal mutual assistance and solidarity. The Communist and Workers...
Page 58 - My comrades and I are happy that we were able to take part in this demonstration and that we were able, even briefly, to break through the sludge of unbridled lies and cowardly silence, and thereby demonstrate that not all the citizens of our country are in agreement with the violence carried out in the name of the Soviet people.