Summary
The Bratislava Declaration was the result of the conference held in Bratislava on 3 August 1968 by the representatives of the Communist and Worker's parties of Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the USSR, and Czechoslovakia.[1][2] The declaration was a response to the Prague Spring. It affirmed an unshakable fidelity to Marxism–Leninism and proletarian internationalism, and declared an implacable struggle against "bourgeois" ideology and all "anti-socialist" forces.[3] The Soviet Union also expressed its intention to intervene in any Warsaw Pact country if a "bourgeois" system—a pluralist system of several political parties—were ever established.[4]
The Bratislava Declaration and Roadmap of 2016 is an unrelated document that was the outcome of an informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government of European Union countries in Bratislava on September 16, 2016, chaired by Donald Tusk.[5]
References edit
- ^ "The Bratislava Declaration, August 3, 1968". Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
- ^ "The Prague Spring: Signing of the Bratislava Declaration, 3 August 1968". www.bridgemanimages.com. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "Bratislava Declaration (1968)". The Cold War. 2016-06-09. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "USSR Czechoslovakia Intervention 1968". Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ "Bratislava Declaration and Roadmap". www.consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
External links edit
- Partial text of the declaration, from Keesing's Contemporary Archives, August 1968, reprinted by Stanford University