Five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. The historic events unfolded as reformers in Czechoslovakia sought to overturn Stalinism, revive a stagnant economy and return ...
Elsewhere, Hungary threatens to send migrants to Brussels; Czech Senate approves postal voting; and Polish government suffers setback in bid to put central bank chief on trial. It is said that the ...
A new book and companion exhibition highlight a Czech photographer's stunning snapshots of the Soviet invasion of Prague. Josef Koudelka/Magnum PhotosWenceslas Square, Prague, 1968 One afternoon in ...
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. The “Prague ...
PRAGUE (AP) — Ludvik Vaculik, an author, journalist and anti-communist dissident whose “Two Thousand Words” manifesto became a key document of the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement that contributed ...