Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ber Wiss. 2020 Dec;43(4):542-559. doi: 10.1002/bewi.202000023. Epub 2020 Dec 2.
In 1969, a few short months after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Sergei I. Prasolov, advisor to the Soviet Ambassador in Prague, informed František Šorm, President of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, at a formal meeting that he welcomed Šorm's suggestion to intensify scientific exchange between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. Šorm politely declined this offer. Behind the veneer of diplomatic courtesy on the part of both actors, a real drama was taking place. Šorm and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences had actually never formulated such a request. To the contrary, since the late 1950s the academy had repeatedly pointed out that the Soviets were incapable of coordinating scientific activities in the Eastern Bloc. The Soviet system of academic cooperation within the Eastern Bloc had already begun to collapse after the Geneva Summit of 1955, where the Soviets opened the door to international collaboration across the Iron Curtain. Yet it was only in the late 1960s that the Soviets realized that while they dominated large-scale international collaboration, they had lost control of internal developments within the Eastern Bloc.
1969 年，在华约入侵捷克斯洛伐克仅数月后，苏联驻布拉格大使顾问谢尔盖·I·普拉索洛夫（Sergei I. Prasolov）在一次正式会议上告诉捷克斯洛伐克科学院院长弗拉迪斯拉夫·斯姆尔（František Šorm），他欢迎斯姆尔提出加强捷克斯洛伐克和苏联之间科学交流的建议。斯姆尔礼貌地拒绝了这一提议。在两位参与者的外交礼节的表象背后，一场真正的戏剧正在上演。斯姆尔和捷克斯洛伐克科学院实际上从未提出过这样的要求。相反，自 20 世纪 50 年代末以来，该科学院一再指出，苏联无法协调东欧集团的科学活动。1955 年日内瓦峰会后，苏联为跨越铁幕的国际合作打开了大门，东欧集团内部的苏联学术合作体系已经开始崩溃。然而，直到 20 世纪 60 年代末，苏联才意识到，尽管他们主导了大规模的国际合作，但他们已经失去了对东欧集团内部发展的控制。
