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History > Cold War > Czechoslovakia > Soviet invasion 1968
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Time stopped and the tanks rolled in … Josef Koudelka’s Hand and Wristwatch, August 1968.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
Time for a riot: how the art of 1968 caught a world in turmoil It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle – with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US.
Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuous time G Mon 30 Apr 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Thu 26 Jul 2018 11.58 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/apr/30/
Prague
Lone car passing dozens of Russian tanks during Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia during "Prague Spring."
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Date taken: 1968
Photograph: Bill Ray
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=b34a4220a75a5564 - broken link
Czech youngsters holding a Czechoslovak flag stand atop an overturned truck as other Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in Prague, 21 August 1968.
Photograph: Libor Hajsky AFP/Getty Images
Moscow crushes the Prague Spring - archive, August 1968 How the Guardian reported the Russian and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 50 years ago G Fri 10 Aug 2018 10.15 BST Last modified on Fri 10 Aug 2018 13.29 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/aug/10/
Prague residents surround Soviet tanks on 21 August 1968.
Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
Russian presence divides Czechs 50 years after Prague Spring Events of 1968 still influence debate about whether Russia should be seen as friend or foe G Mon 20 Aug 2018 05.00 BST Last modified on Mon 20 Aug 2018 19.35 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/20/
A protester confronting troops in Prague during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Unarmed citizens jeered invading Soviet military forces, shouting, “Fascists” and “Go home!”
Photograph: PhotoQuest/Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Residents of Prague witnessing the invasion.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
A young Czech man showing a news report about the invasion to a Soviet soldier.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Soldiers abandoning a burning tank in Prague.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
The body of a young Czech, killed for having tried to drape his flag over a Soviet tank.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
A final farewell for a victim of the invasion.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
A protester standing in defiance atop a tank.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
A general strike in Wenceslas Square.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Gathering around a radio for news of the uprising after the Soviet invasion.
Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis, via Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Czech students working to produce underground news reports during the first days of the Soviet occupation.
Photograph: Mario De Biasi/Mondadori portfolio, via Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Soviet soldiers on their way to occupy the Czechoslovak Radio building.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
A family leaving Prague at the central railway station to escape the Soviet invasion.
Photograph: Stefan Tyszko Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Alexander Dubcek, the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, on his way to meet the Soviets.
Photograph: Harry Redl The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Lining up for food in Prague in August 1968.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photo
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
The funeral service for Jan Palach at Wenceslas Square in Prague in 1969.
The Czech student set himself on fire to protest the Soviet occupation.
Photograph: Ullstein Bild, via Getty Images
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Buildings in ruins after the uprising.
Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
Soviet soldiers in Prague.
Moscow viewed events in Czechoslovakia as something like a virus, fearing they would spread and infect other Warsaw Pact nations.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka Magnum Photos
50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit) NYT Aug. 20, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/
The invasion seen from on high.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
Young Czechs crowd around to talk to soldiers.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
A man on a bicycle squeezes past a tank.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
Warsaw Pact tank crew.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
A Warsaw Pact tank daubed with a swastika.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
Citizens pass a body in the street.
Photograph: Milan Linhart
Prague 1968: lost images of the day that freedom died Fifty years ago on 21 August, Milan Linhart reached for his camera as Soviet tanks rolled into the streets of Czechoslovakia’s capital. His previously unseen photographs have stirred uncomfortable memories. G Sun 19 Aug 2018 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
August 1968
Czechoslovakia Prague
Soviet invasion
For four months in 1968, Czechoslovakia broke free from Soviet rule, allowing freedom of speech and removing some state controls. https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zwb2dmn/revision/3
On the night of August 20 1968 Soviet tanks and troops invaded Czechoslovakia in an effort to stop the Prague Spring. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2008/aug/17/prague.1968
The then Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, backed by eastern bloc allies, had dispatched a massive invasion force to crush the Prague Spring movement led by Czechoslovakia’s communist leader, Alexander Dubček, whose liberal reforms had won wide domestic support but alarmed Moscow, who feared that they could presage the eventual loss of a cold war ally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/
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Residents read uncensored newspapers outlining Dubček’s new, freer, policies.
Photograph: David Newell-Smith
Observer archive - The Prague Spring, 27 July 1968 David Newell-Smith documented the lives of ordinary Czechs in Prague as they embraced First secretary Dubček’s liberalising political reforms. Less than a month later, on 21 August 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks rolled in. G Sun 22 Jul 2018 08.00 BST Last modified on Fri 27 Jul 2018 11.17 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/22/
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