Pavel Kohout recalls the Prague Spring

On the 40th anniversary of Prague Spring, Czech writer Pavel Kohout talks in an interview with Andrzej Jagodziński about the events back then. Kohout was one of the 1968 dissidents and was expelled from the Communist Party in 1969. According to Kohout, the opposition suspected back then that the people wanted pluralism, a free market economy and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. "However, initially we hoped to achieve the changes within the system. Unfortunately, this didn't succeed. The Communist Party leadership, which had introduced reforms, capitulated shamefully and signed the Moscow Protocol. The only advantage of this was that from that moment on no one believed in the party."

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