by: Maria Yang for The New York Times

        The Historical Security Council had the delegates of several nations debate back and forth regarding the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Historical Security Committee consists of 15 countries, and as the delegates spoke about different points and the committee session progressed, the tension between the USSR, USA, and Czechoslovakia rose significantly. 

As quoted by the chairlady, the events took place in 1968 ; right when the Soviet Union became stronger while trying to maintain the Iron Curtain following their growth in WW2. Although Czechoslovakia was supposed to remain as an authoritarian communist-led country, failed negotiations between the leader of Czechoslovakia and the Kremlin lead to the USSR taking drastic actions, such as sending firearms to the Czechoslovakian territory. 

The professionalism shown by all delegates, although there were certain arguments back and forth, was surprising, considering the events which had just unfolded – especially between the USA, USSR and Czechoslovkoia. As the discussion advanced, the USSR quickly became defensive as the tension between them and the USA increased. Although the delegate of the USSR claimed that the USA is hypocritical, the delegate of the USA handled the situation in a professional manner, calmly denying all allegations made by the representative of the USSR and stated their disappointment about how their actions were misinterpreted. They have calmly explained that the USSR has manipulated many states into “becoming their puppets”, while the delegate of the USSR tried to deny the allegations. They tried to escape those claims by using the justification of having a different leader, but, as claimed by the delegate of Yugoslavia, the rules and ideology that the USSR followed have not changed at all.