August 22 – On this day: 55 years since the Prague Spring was put down

55 years ago (1968) We revealed Soviet troops stormed the Czech parliament and arrested the country’s political leaders, including the liberal Prime Minister Alexander Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda. Dubcek’s government had introduced sweeping democratic reforms as part of the “Prague Spring”,

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