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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-invade-czechoslovakia?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2022-0 [login to see] 2&om_rid=&~campaign=hist-tdih-2022-0820
On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”—a brief period of liberalization in the communist country.
On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”—a brief period of liberalization in the communist country.
Soviets invade Czechoslovakia
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Czech Republic
Communism
World History
Cold War
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This will probably
I think will happen again. A Zebra never changes their strpes.
I think will happen again. A Zebra never changes their strpes.
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The professional hockey player, Jaromir Jagr, wore and still wears the jersey number 68 to commemorate his home country being invaded that year.
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Remember it well, I was waiting to start flight training in November. Actually got a letter from the Air Force a week or two later that said my report date was unchanged.
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