On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, a
From left to right, top to bottom: Prague students walk past a burning Soviet tank with a national flag · Hippie drawings on a Soviet truck · Crowd of Prague residents surround a Soviet tank · "Home!! Go home!" graffiti on an armored personnel carrier · Funeral of Jan Palach · Refugee camp in Austria · Protesters near burning Soviet tanks · Street fighting · Graffiti with Soviet and Nazi symbols under the inscription "ᛋᛋСР" (SSSR)
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Polish leader Władysław Gomułka in East Berlin, 1967
Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, and East German leader Walter Ulbricht in Moscow
Nicolae Ceauşescu (right) visiting Czechoslovakia in 1968; here, with Alexander Dubček and Ludvik Svoboda
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, or simply Czechoslovakia, was the Czechoslovak state from 1948 until 1989, when the country was under communist rule, and was regarde
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
…On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the…
Obverse of the 100 Kčs banknote of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia dated 1989