The Czech Republic and Slovakia say the film is misleading and "falsifies historical truth." By Vladimir Kozlov The Czech Republic and Slovakia are upset by a recent Russian TV documentary on the 1968 ...

Vladimír Lammer. Occupying forces crossed the Czechoslovakian border shortly before midnight; all larger cities were occupied by the morning. Wenceslas Square, Prague (caption provided by Czech Center ...

Daniel is formerly a research fellow for European affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from ...

The Czech Foreign Ministry has criticized Russian legislation that it says misrepresents the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The ministry statement, released on June 3, came amid reports that ...

Czechs are up in arms about a Russian television documentary that justifies the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia as necessary "to protect" Soviet allies from NATO "aggression." Warsaw Pact: ...

Five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. The historic events unfolded as reformers in Czechoslovakia sought to overturn Stalinism, revive a stagnant economy and return ...

I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary. The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion that ended the ...

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.