21, 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency Tass, today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had occupied Czechoslovakia.Tass said Communist Party and ...
The photo of 19-year-old Ivana is appropriate for 1968, when Soviet tanks roared into Czechoslovakia overnight, I thought. I wondered when it had been taken. "Oh it's nothing to do with the ...
During the tense week that followed, citizens of Prague surrounded the Soviet tanks in protest. Until the invasion stopped Dubcek’s “Prague Spring” reforms, Czechoslovakia had been the most ...