Japan held its first world’s fair in the city of Osaka. There was certainly a lot to be optimistic about, a new decade ahead, ...

Czech President Petr Pavel, in a statement to the press on May 15, 2025, complimented the leaders of the country’s main ...

On the night of 20-21 August, an estimated 200,000 troops (eventually many more) from the armies of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia from several sides ...

Jiri Mádl directs 'Waves,' a drama about the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that serves as the Czech Republic's entry for the 2025 Oscars.

‘Waves’ Review: Jiří Mádl’s Drama on the End of the Prague Spring Marks a Timely Portrait of the Power of Principled Journalists The muscular spy thriller, which is the Czech entry for ...

On Aug. 21, 2024, we marked the 56th anniversary of the Communist Soviet-lead Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The August attack that is among the sad history of the Cold War. The “Prague ...

The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia on this day in 1968. Get This Happened straight to your inbox ️ each day! Sign up here. Why did the Soviet Union invade ...

Troops from four Warsaw Pact countries—East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union itself—had entered Prague on August 21, 1968 and taken up positions in and around the city’s main monuments ...

At least 2,600 Hungarians and 600 Soviet troops were killed in the fighting. The 1968 Prague Spring was ended when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

We revealed Soviet troops stormed the Czech parliament and arrested the country’s political leaders, including the liberal Prime Minister Alexander Dubcek and President Ludvik Svoboda. Dubcek ...

Moscow’s barbaric suppression of the Prague Spring in1968 was a precursor to today’s war. Few are aware, however, that there was a Ukrainian factor behind the Soviet tanks.