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Dubček himself, accompanied by senior members of the Czechoslovak government, was spirited to Moscow by Soviet forces, leaving Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague and a power vacuum in the country.

Jiri Mádl directs 'Waves,' a drama about the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that serves as the Czech Republic's entry for the 2025 Oscars.

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.

They saw the Prague Spring as a half-way house to freedom but one the Soviets would have to dismantle anyway lest the idea spread to their other colonies. Brezhnev, employing a Marxist version of the ...

The 1968 Prague Spring was ended when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Around 137 Czechs and Slovaks died as a result of the invasion, according to Czech ...

Fifty-five years ago today, on Aug. 21, 1968, Soviet tanks suddenly rolled into the Czechoslovak capital, Prague. Within weeks, through the application of brute military force, Moscow managed to ...

Lubomir Strougal, who led Czechoslovakia for 18 years during the Cold War and in later years faced prosecution twice on charges related to abuse of power but was never convicted, died Feb. 6 at 98.

In a social media statement attached to the video, Mr Gerashchenko added: “54 years after ‘Prague Spring,’ Russian tanks are coming into the Czech capital again. “Only this time they are ...

Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...