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.

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礼貌问题：1968 年前后苏联外交和苏联“制度保障”在维持苏联对捷克斯洛伐克科学的影响方面的作用

1969 年，在华沙条约组织入侵捷克斯洛伐克后短短几个月，苏联驻布拉格大使的顾问谢尔盖 I.普拉索洛夫在一次正式会议上通知捷克斯洛伐克科学院院长弗朗蒂谢克 Šorm，他对 Šorm 的建议表示欢迎。加强捷克斯洛伐克和苏联之间的科学交流。Šorm 礼貌地拒绝了这个提议。在两位演员外交礼貌的外表下，一场真正的戏剧正在上演。Šorm 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 1950 年代后期以来，该学院一再指出苏联无法协调东方集团的科学活动。1955 年日内瓦峰会之后，苏联在东方集团内的学术合作体系已经开始瓦解，在那里苏联打开了跨越铁幕的国际合作之门。然而，直到 1960 年代后期，苏联才意识到，虽然他们主导了大规模的国际合作，但他们已经失去了对东方集团内部发展的控制。