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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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I think Putin thought he could do the same thing in the Ukraine, 6 months in he is still trying.
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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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50 years later they have escaped Communism and we are now hell bent on getting into it because it is “fair” and equity matters.
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