On August 21, Czechs mark 57 years since the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. The Prague Spring was silenced and the communist regime was prolonged for more than 20 years. On this day a commemorative ceremony in front of the Czech Radio headquarters honors the victims, those who resisted, and those who still live with those memories. | Radio Prague

On #ThisDayinHistory 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. It was the largest deployment of military force in Europe since the end of World War II. | HISTORY

1.2K views · 45 reactions | The Czech Republic marked the anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on Thursday with memorial events in Prague and across the country. #nocomment | NoComment | Facebook