Tag: Soviet troops

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Prague 1968: “Socialism with a human face” squashed by 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops

  

  More than 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalization, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.