Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia: 200,000 Troops End the Prague Spring
Two hundred thousand Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring's political liberalization. This brutal invasion immediately ended any hope for a "socialism with a human face," dragging the country back under strict Soviet control and triggering a mass exodus of intellectuals.
August 20, 1968
58 years ago
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