What was the Prague Spring, and what happened in August 1968?

The Prague Spring, and the invasion

Pražské jaro a okupace

21 August 1968. In 1968 the party leader Alexander Dubček loosened censorship and promised socialism with a human face.

Where: Czechia

What happened

In 1968 the party leader Alexander Dubček loosened censorship and promised socialism with a human face. On the night of 20–21 August, armies of the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria invaded; East German troops stood ready at the border but were kept out at the last moment. The reforms were reversed in the years that followed, called normalisation, and Soviet troops stayed until 1991.

Say it

Jednadvacátého srpna 1968 přijely do Československa sovětské tanky.

On 21 August 1968 Soviet tanks came into Czechoslovakia.

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