 Complete the following phrase:  Kosygin protected János Kádárs economic reforms and his position as leader of the Hungarian Peoples Republic from intervention by the Soviet leadership. Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, who was removed from all of his posts in 1970, was succeeded by Edward Gierek who tried to revitalize the economy of the Peoples Republic of Poland by borrowing money from the First World. The Soviet leadership approved both countries respective economic experiments, since it was trying to reduce its large Eastern Bloc subsidy programme in the form of cheap oil and gas exports. During the discussions within the Soviet leadership of a possible Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Kosygin reminded leaders of the consequences of the Soviet suppression of the 