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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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On August 25, 1968, seven people went to Red Square to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia: Larisa Bogoraz, Konstantin Babtsky, Vadim Delaunai, Vladimir Dremluga, Pavel Litvinov ...

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.