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AND ALL MEANS HAS CA.USED AN ALARMING RISE IN POLITICAL TEMPERA• 
TURE. THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS WILL ; CONTINUE AS LONG AS OCCUPATi6N 
IS IN FORCE•" 
4• INDEPENDENT ILTA~SANOMAT STATED• "TWELVE · YEARS AFTER HUNGA~IAN EVENTS SOVIET UNION HAS AGAIN ENTERED UPON ROAD OF MILITARY FORCEe HUNGARIAN EVENTS WILL HOWEVER PROBABLY NOT BE REPEATED BECAUSE CZECHS HAVE DECIDED TO REFRAIN FROM RESISTENCE••• soviET LEADER· SHIP STILL DOES NOT ACCEPT WINDS OF GREATER FREEDOM IN COUNTRiES OF EASTERN EUROPE AND CONDEMNS EVERY DEVELOPMENT WHICH MiGHT WEAKEN MOSCOW'S DOMINATING POSITION•" 
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5. CONSERVATIVE uusr SUOMI SAIDI "SOVIET UNION AND WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES HAVE GROSSLY VIOLATED PRINCIPLES OF CCOPERATION AMONG COMMUNIST COUNTRIES1 PROVISIONS OF UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND ' SOVEREIGNTY OF A NATION••• SOVIET UNION WILL · HAVE TO ~AY HiGH 
PRICE FOR ITS POLICY. ITS REPUTATION AS DEFENDER OF SOVEREiGNtY OF SMALL NATIONS HAS BEEN DESTROYED••• WE FlNNS SHOUL6 NOW REiL• IZE THAT PRIZES ARE NOT AWARDED FOR GOOD CONDUCT IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS• IT IS CLEAR THAT A NAT .ION IN ORDER TO ·SURVIVE MUST BEND AT CERTAIN TIMES IN ITS HISTORY1 BUT IT MUST NEVER LET THINGS GO TO THE BREAKING POINT•" 
6• CENTER PARTY SUOMENMAA WROTEa "SOVIET UNION AND OTHER FOUR WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES MUST REALIZE ' THAT THEIR ACTION WILL : RESULT IN STRONG CONDEMNATION AND WILL WEAKEN THElR POSITION IN EYES OF REST OF WORLD••• OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKI A IS A HEAV~ POL• ITlCAL LIABILITY IN THE JNTERNATlONAL ARENA•" 
1• SOCIAL DEMOCRATlC SOSIALIDEMOKRAATTI STATED a "FROM POINT . O~· VIEW OF FINNISH SOCIAL . DEMOCRACY~ DEVELOPMENTS I N CZECHOSLOVAKIA ARE A DISAPPOINTMENT. IN ADDlTibN TO THE POL1TidAL · REPERCUSSI6NS IN THE WORLD THE SOVIET DEC1SION WILL ALSO AFFEtr OUR o6MESTiE 
POLITICAL SITUATION. IT rs CLEARLY A SETBACK : To .: cooPERATlON 
AMONG PARTIES OF KA LEFT.WING THAT THE · SOClALIS SYSTEM DOES ~OT 
BROADL~ RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT FOR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION TO EXIST•" 
81 LEFT -WING SIMONIST PA IVAN SANOMAT STATED' "T .E USE OF FORC~ 
MAY HAVE A WIDESPREAD EFFECT . WITHIN WORLD : COMMUNIST MOVEMEN~ ANO 
LABOR PARTIES. IT WILL ALSO BE A. STRAIN IN INTE RNATIOIMAL RELATIONS1 
AT LEAS T TEMPORARILY• CZECHOSLOVAK1AN CRISIS MU 'T BE REG~RDED 
AS MOST REGRETTABLE AND TRAGIC EVENT•" 
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