Moscow Protocol was a document signed by Czechoslovak

Czechoslovakia

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 political leaders in Moscow

Moscow

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, after the Prague Spring

Prague Spring

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. The negotiations took place from 23 to 26 August 1968. The main signatories were President Ludvík Svoboda

Ludvík Svoboda

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, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

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 Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubcek

Alexander Dubček , also known as Dikita, was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia , famous for his attempt to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring...

 and most of the ministers and Communist Party leaders (Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák was a Slovak politician, president of Czechoslovakia and a long-term Communist leader of Czechoslovakia and of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia...

 among them). The only person present at the negotiations who declined to sign was František Kriegel

František Kriegel

František Kriegel was a Czechoslovak politician, physician, and a member of the Communist Party reform wing of Prague Spring...

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The document included among its many expectations, promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia, to act upon the promises made in the Bratislava Declaration, to denounce the 14th Party Congress and its resolutions, to restrain critical Czechoslovak media, and to reject any interference in the Eastern Bloc

Eastern bloc

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 by the United Nations Security Council

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