The website presents the list of 108 victims in connection with the 1968 occupation who were either shot to death by the occupation troops Count Salm heirs lose dispute against Czech ministry ...
Lithuanian ban on Soviet symbols ...
Kyrgyz author Aitmatov dies ...
Historic trial replays in Hungary ...
Projects ... or died in a clash with military vehicles.
The list has been completed lately after a thorough research. Some photographs and original Czech Radio recordings from the first days of the occupation have been released for the first time, Zacek said. The unique recordings were only recently uncovered in the archive of security forces that is administered by the USTR. The information on August 1968 is available on the USTR's website www.ustrcr.cz/cs/srpen-1968. The armies of five Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary and Poland, crossed the Czechoslovak border in the night to August 21, 1968 to crash the reform movement in the country. The supreme Soviet leaders feared liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960th that culminated after reform communist Alexandr Dubcek was elected to the Communist Party's (KSC) helm in January 1968. The Soviet troops's presence on Czechoslovak territory was later "legalised" by a treaty that the National Assembly (Czechoslovak parliament) approved in October 1968. The last Soviet soldiers left the country only 23 years later, following the collapse of the communist regime in 1989.
(Ceske Noviny)
more info >>
<< Back