In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty.” To wit, once the Communist system has been ...
The hybrid feature, which deploys an artful mix of live-action drama and restored archive footage, takes place during the Prague Spring in 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops and tanks rolled into the city.
This attempt, known as the Prague Spring, lasted for four months until it was crushed by the Soviet Red Army Although Dubček was a committed communist, he believed that communism did not have to ...
Jiří Mucha, who wrote “This Spring in Prague” (April 1, 1968) for The Nation, was a Czech journalist and author who had been arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the government in the early ...