Why did the USSR feel threatened by events in Hungary and Czechoslovakia

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Why did the USSR feel threatened by events in Czechoslovakia, 1968
- Power to the Farmers
  - announced that farmers would have the right to form independent co-operatives
  - the farmers themselves would direct the work that they did as opposed to orders coming from a centralised authority.
- Dubcek stressed that Czechoslovakia would stay in the Warsaw Pact,
  - but in August, President Tito of Yugoslavia, a country not in the Warsaw Pact, visited Prague.
- It was started by people who were meant to be influencing and were under Soviet control
  - Apr 5th 1968; Dub?ek embarked on a programme of reform
    - included amendments to the constitution of Czechoslovakia
    - would have brought back a degree of political democracy and greater personal freedom.
- Power to Trade unions
  - given increased rights to bargain for their members.
- Power to Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia
  - Communist Party members in Czechoslovakia were given the right to challenge party policy
    - as opposed to the traditional acceptance of all government policy.
  - were given the right to act “according to their conscience
- Dubcek announced that he was still committed to democratic communism
  - but other political parties were set up.
the Soviet Union was very suspicious and fearful that any form of rebellion/change would spread and lead to a split in its control of other countries

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