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Europe, January 1960 - December 1969 |
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| 15.04.1960 | DDR | Forced collectivisation of DDR agriculture.
Many farmers flee west. DDR announces it no longer has any independent
farmers.
Almost 200 000 citizens of the DDR flee to West Berlin this year. |
| 15.06.1961 | DDR | "Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten !" Ulbricht at international press conference. (Nobody intents to build a wall) |
| 12.08.1961 | DDR | (night) The Berlin Wall is built. Engineering units of the Border Guard, SED Fighting Units and guarded work columns begin to tear up roads and erect barricades at 02:15. The border is sealed by morning, initially barbed wire, then progressively more and more bricks, then concrete. The "anti-fascist protection wall." 165km long, 290 towers, 136 bunkers, 105km of trenches, 122km of fence. |
| 20.06.1963 | YU | Tito is elected President of Yugoslavia for life. |
| 26.06.1963 | DDR | President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall and makes his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. |
| 12.1963 | DDR | Tense negotiations eventually end with West Berlin residents once more allowed to visit relatives in the East, from 19.12.63. |
| 05.01.1964 | DDR | 1.24 million visits to date from West to East Berlin. |
| 1964 | PL | Jacek Kuroń is expelled from the PZPR for "leftist deviation." |
| 15.10.1964 | Krushchev stand down from Party posts 'for health reasons', to be replaced by Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. | |
| 19.03.1965 | RO | Ceauçescu becomes leader of the Romanian Communist Party. |
| 31.01.1967 | RO | Romania becomes the first Soviet bloc state to establish relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. |
| 06.1967 | Union of Czechoslovak writers launch a revolt against the degenerate policies of Novtny and Hendrych. | |
| 05.01.1968 | CS | Dubček replaces Novotný as head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. |
| 04.1968 | The Action Programme of Dubček's leadership. | |
| 12.07.1968 | CS | Dubcek proposes to Presidium that he reply, requesting the presence of all European socialist countries, rather than turn down the request outright. |
| 13.07.1968 | CS | Cernik, Dubcek meet Kadar in Komaron and inform them of the binding decision. |
| 14.07.1968 | CS | Brezhnev and cronies meet in Warsaw |
| 15.07.1968 | CS | The Five (invading nations) issue a statement saying they had met and dispatched a letter to the Czechoslovak Central Committee - poll shows 78% for, 7% against the reform policy. |
| 19.07.1968 | CS | CC meeting attended by Central Auditing Commission and members of forthcoming 14th Congress. |
| 07.1968 | CS | Brezhnev meets the Czechoslovak leadership in Čierná on the Ukraine-Slovak border. |
| 22.08.1968 | CS | The invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Five. |
| 17.04.1969 | CS | Dubček is replaced by Gustav Husák. |
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