Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko te Spring o Prague me te nuinga o tōna tukinga e te Soviet Union
i te tau 1968 ka huri te ao ki te ao Communist. Ko te kaiarahi o Romania a Nicolae Ceauşescu i tino whakahe i te whakaekenga a Soviet i roto i tetahi korero, i tino whakaatu i tana tautoko ki te kaiarahi o Czechoslovakia i raro i a Alexander Dubček. Ahakoa i tautokohia e te Pāti Kaunihera o Potohi, te Pāti Kaunihera o Awherika ki te Tonga me te Pāti Kaunihera, USA te tuunga o te Soviet, ko te Pāti Kaunihera o Itari (PCI) me te Pāti Kaunihera o Paniora (PCE) i kaha ki te whakapae i te mahi. Ko te kaiarahi o te Communist Party o Finland (SKP), te Swedish Left Communist Party (VPK) me te Communist Party of France (PCF) i tono mo te whakakotahitanga i whakaatu i to raatau riri mo te whakauru a te Soviet, me te PCF na reira i whakahe i tetahi mahi a te Soviet mo te wa tuatahi i roto i tona hitori. Ko te Communist Party o Kariki (KKE) i raru i te wehewehe nui mo nga tautohetohe a roto mo te Prague Spring, me te roopu pro-Dubček e wehe ana i nga hononga me te kaiarahi Soviet me te whakatu i te KKE Interior.