Political Leaders and "Iron Cages"

..., to whose cause they were bonded during a struggle they deeply believed in. With their high ideals and naivete, they landed in positions of responsibility--in iron cages, where they became instruments of Stalin's brutal regime. Similarly, Gustav Husak, former Czechoslovak President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, was unaware of the iron cage he was walking into in 1968. Husak had a simples strategy when he decided to cooperate with the Soviets after the August 1968 invasion....