Pali,
Thank you for giving us the perspective of one whose grandparents presumably experienced the Nazi jackboot, and who himself grew up in the Soviet Empire. I had the privilege of flying with Josef Rechka in my youth, and his dignified reticence to recount his experiences gave me a tiny insight of the agony of the Czechoslovaks.
You may have noticed that Britain has been slowly brainwashed by the liberal, metropolitan elite, which longs to disassociate itself from the very actions which preserved the freedom it enjoys. Most of our leading politicians, some of them children of the CND, are barely old enough to have understood the Cold War; certainly not old enough to have been dismayed by news of the crushing of the Prague Spring.
To follow on from Chugalug2, we now have a prime minister whose instinct is to rail against tyranny abroad; but with too shrill a voice, while chopping up his stick for firewood.