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Should 1968 Communist 'traitors' be tried in court?

Rob Cameron
04-09-2001
Former Communist Party General Secretary Milous Jakes

33 years since the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia

Olga Szantová
21-08-2001
Tanks in front of Czechoslovak Radio, August 1968

Ten years ago last Russian soldiers left Czechoslovakia

Olga Szantová
22-06-2001

Milovice commemorates departure of Red Army

Peter Smith
13-06-2001
Milovice today, photo: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 4.0 International

NATO braced for European war with Soviets after 1968 invasion

Rob Cameron
21-07-2000

Newly-declassified documents released by Britain's Public Record Office on Thursday contained some fascinating revelations. According to a letter dated March 19, 1969, Britain and the United States were seriously discussing plans for a military conflict with the Soviet Union, in the wake of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. And as reports, London and Washington believed the NATO alliance could have collapsed if Soviet influence had been allowed to extend further into Europe. His report begins with a Czechoslovak Radio announcement from

Events leading up to the Warsaw Pact intervention of August 1968

17-08-1998

The intervention

16-08-1998

 
 
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