If the West had learnt the lessons of the past, it would now be supporting even the smallest countries' dreams of freedomThe Observer, Sunday August 17 2008
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Forty years ago this week, the night sky above Prague began to rumble with the sound of transport aircraft. On distant frontiers, tanks lurched forward. The invasion of Czechoslovakia had begun.
Today, there are Russian tank columns driving along Georgian roads. Again, a small country lies prostrate before the military power of the Kremlin. Poland, in turn, is informed by a Russian general that by agreeing to station American missiles, it has made itself a nuclear target - perhaps no more than a brutal statement of the obvious.
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