Current Affairs Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia 38 years ago
Thirty-eight years ago on August 21, 1968, Czechoslovak citizens woke up to find that the country had been invaded by Warsaw Pact forces. It was the beginning of the end of the so-called Prague Spring, a period of reform communism ushered in by Alexander Dubcek, who is known for wanting to create "socialism with a human face." Yet this experiment involving freedom of the press and the opportunity to travel abroad was not looked upon kindly by the Communist Party leadership in Moscow, nor by the leadership in neighbouring socialist states. The solution to the problems posed by Czechoslovakia's experiment with reform communism was a mass military invasion during the night of August 20-21, 1968.
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