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.

On August 20-21, 1968, tens of thousands of troops of the Warsaw Pact states invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and stifle a nascent movement of the working class. This is the ...

Matej Šemšej wrote a thesis on the topic of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In it, he also explored the expressions of citizen resistance leading up to the first anniversary ...

Aug. 21 marked the 55th anniversary of the Communist Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia during ... The invasion first began in stealth with Russian Antonov civilian airplanes ...

Forty years ago, on the night of August 20-21, 1968, 2,000 tanks and 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia. Failed negotiations in Bratislava over a program of political ...

She says the Warsaw Pact invasion of her country had a major impact on her life and caused her to worry about the future of Czechoslovakia. The banner 'Occupiers Go Home!' in Russian in Plzen ...

Media fail to remember Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (Your ... as a Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so-called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia 47 ...

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 ...

Set in the run up to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, “Waves” is most fascinated with the way those working at the International News Office at Czechoslovak Radio served as a last ...

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 ...

The Pabloite International Secretariat intervened aggressively in Eastern Europe and especially Czechoslovakia in 1968 in order to disorient the opposition to Stalinism within the working class ...