Talking Point Soviet nuclear arsenal in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia was the last communist country of Central and Eastern Europe to host Soviet troops during the Cold War. They arrived in 1968 as “brotherly assistance” to help keep the communist hardliners in power, and they stayed until the fall of communism 19 years later. One of the top secrets of the military command was the fact that the Soviets deployed nuclear warheads on Czechoslovak territory.
Michael Kocáb at a former Soviet base in Bělá pod Bezdězem, photo: Jan Richter
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