38 Years From Soviet Invasion Into Czechoslovakia

21 August 2006, 14:41 - History
Czechs remember thirty eight years from the invasion of Soviet (and other »friend«) army into the Czechoslovakia. on 21st August 1968, soldiers sent to Czechoslovakia should stop attemps to reform and liberalize Communist system by the Communist leadership under Alexander Dubček, the process sometimes called Prague Spring of 68.

The head of the former USSR Leonid Brezhnev publicly criticized the Czechoslovak leadership as »revisionist« and »anti-Soviet« in July and a month later he orchestrated the Warsaw Pact invasion that led to the removal of the Dubček leadership. Soviet-friendly commrades took over the government and the era of so-called normalization (return back before all liberalization steps that where undertoken.

Brezhnev's assertion that the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the internal affairs of its satellites to »safeguard socialism« became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine in the historiography.

Soviet soldiers came into Prague streets with tanks. Some of them demolished buildings. Documents published recently for the first time shows the proofs that they demolished also the interiors, for example in the building of Czechoslovak Radio.