On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West. Following military operations, which lasted for the next 20 days, Nazi Germany ...

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

Created out of America's desire to protect Europe from communism, the North Atlantic Alliance underwent profound changes ...

Jiri Mádl directs 'Waves,' a drama about the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that serves as the Czech Republic's entry for the 2025 Oscars.

On Aug. 21, 2024, we marked the 56th anniversary of the Communist Soviet-lead Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The August attack that is among the sad history of the Cold War.

After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, following the Prague Spring—a period of political liberalisation and reform in ...

Updated August 20, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia on this day in 1968. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here.

Jirí Mádl and star Vojtech Vodochodský discuss the epic about Czechoslovak Radio journalists before and after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, which premiered in ...

As the dust settled on the aftermath of the Second World War, the rising action of the Soviet Union’s new campaign forced the Western world into a new, international order of conflicting interests.

8 September 1968, an accountant and Home Army veteran Ryszard Siwiec immolated himself in a Warsaw stadium during a state-held event, protesting the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Aug. 21 marked the 55th anniversary of the Communist Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia during the Cold War.

Martina Navratilova recently reminisced about the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, an event that fuelled her determination to persistently advocate for hope and democracy. On August 20-21 ...