Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...

In Prague, the year 1968 began with a bold attempt to reform and liberalize its creaking Soviet communist regime from within, 50 years later, authoritarianism is again on the rise in Eastern Europe.

A rally on Prague's Old Town Square in February 1968 to mark the 20th anniversary of the socialist coup. ... Early on August 21, 1968, around 250,000 soldiers, 2,000 tanks, ...

Prague 1968: A Timeless Evocation of Tragedy. By Jessica Dawson. December 18, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Through his camera's lens, Josef Koudelka elevated the horrors of incursion to biblical heights.

When tanks rolled into Prague overnight on August 20-21, 1968, photographer Libor Hajsky was only 20 years old. He had just returned from a holiday abroad and the Soviet-led invasion took him by ...

Hong Kong Crisis Starts To Look Like Prague 1968. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such ...

Former Polish President Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski apologized for the first time for ordering Polish troops to take part in the 1968 Moscow-led crackdown on Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring reform ...

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Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...

In Prague, the year 1968 began with a bold attempt to reform and liberalize its creaking Soviet communist regime from within, 50 years later, authoritarianism is again on the rise in Eastern Europe.