Czech Republic and Slovakia Remember Prague Spring

People › Other ♦ Published: August 21, 2022; 22:50 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic commemorated the Warsaw Pact invasion of the then Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) on August 21, 1968. Especially with the background of Russia's current attack on Ukraine, this day is of special significance.

Civil disobedience and various actions occurred to slow down the Warsaw Pact. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons, The Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain

The Czech Republic and Slovakia commemorate the Warsaw Pact invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, when the bloody suppression of the "Prague Spring" democracy movement ended hopes for socialism with a human face.

The Prague Spring is the name given to the efforts of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (KSČ) under Alexander Dubček in the spring of 1968 to…

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