Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tīmata te Rōpū Communist o Czechoslovak i tētahi kaupapa whakarerekētanga nui i raro i a Alexander Dubček. Ko te mahere ki te whakaiti i te mana pokapū me te hanga i te ohanga kia nui ake te mana motuhake o te roopu i whakawehi i nga whakapono turanga. I te 20 o Akuhata 1968, i whakahaua e te kaiārahi o te Soviet a Leonid Brezhnev he
te whakaekenga hōia nui a nga ope o te Paati o Warsaw i whakangaromia ai te whakawehi o te whakawāteatanga o roto. I taua wa ano, i whakawehi nga Soviet ki te utu ki te whakaekenga o Ingarangi-Whare-Israeli o Ihipa. Ko te hua o tēnei ko te hinganga o te āhua o te whakawātea, me te wehenga atu o ētahi atu mātauranga mai i ngā rōpū Communist i te Uru.