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Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania for 21 years, earning a reputation as a brutal dictator. During his reign he developed the largest network of spies in Eastern Europe, silenced his opposition…

В два часа ночи 21 августа 1968 г. советский пассажирский самолет Ан-24 запросил аварийную посадку в пражском аэропорту Рузине. Диспетчеры дали добро, самолет приземлился, из него высадились военнослужащие 7-й гвардейской воздушно-десантной дивизии, дислоцированной в Каунасе. Десантники под угрозой…

Prague 1968, the Book

IS-3M soviet heavy tank. by FutureWGworker on DeviantArt

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After years of taking striking photos of Gypsies, the Czech photographer stood before the tanks during the 1968 invasion. He smuggled out his images, they went round the world and he fled to Britain. Here are his most poignant and powerful shots

IS-3 destroyed by internal explosion during the Hungarian Uprising, 1956. Pin by Paolo Marzioli

Soviet troops and most of their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to halt political liberalization in the country called the Prague Spring.

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a highly decorated general of Russia's Red Army. Both highly admired and feared by Stalin, he made huge contributions to the

On August 21, 1968 dozens of tanks rolled through the streets and aimed at the crowds of students and protesters. Shooting was heard, screams and cries. People were in shock. They could not believe that the invaders were Russians – the same Russians who had liberated them in 1945 at the close of World War II....READ MORE

Sovětský tank v Praze Okupanti na Václavském náměstí Vzpomínky na Srpen 1968 - vojáci byli vyděšení a zmatení, jiní rabovali Z noci 20. na 21. srpna 1968... Vojska pěti „spřátelených“ vojsk Varšavské smlouvy SSSR, Polska, Maďarska, Bulharska a NDR překročily hranice Československa a bez ozbrojeného odporu armády i civilistů obsadily strategické posty, od státních hranic po významné budovy. Obyvatelstvo bylo zmateno a proto došlo k několika potyčkám mezi civilisty a vojáky. Tak jsme…