The footage of Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague still evokes anger and sadness in me today. Fifty-eight years ago, Moscow showed that it wants to decide about our country by force. I was born five years later and grew up during the normalization period. August 1968 is not distant history for me. It marked lives. (translated)
August 1968: Soviet tanks were killing our citizens, driving people from their homes, and plunging our country into darkness. Today, Ukraine is experiencing similar brutality. The same imperial logic, the same lies, the same cynicism. To forget about August 1968 would mean to reconcile with injustice and unfreedom. (translated)
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia, pointed out the period of unfreedom and oppression, but also on the brave individuals who fought for freedom, while opposition leader Vít Rakušan warned against the current Russian aggression and emphasized the necessity to reflect on history to prevent similar events from happening again. (translated)
August 1968 was a brutal act of Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia. It brought the dead, the wounded, emigration, political purges, fear, and two decades of humiliation. Today, the Kremlin is destroying Ukraine with the same perverse imperial logic and again claiming the right to decide the fate of other nations. (translated)
August 1968. Sometimes we talked about it at home. For a moment you feel like you can breathe, and then you wake up to the rumble of tanks in the street. There will be no freedom. Everything is gone. How would I have stood? Would I have moved a little? And then a bit more? For the family, or just for peace? (translated)
On the night of August 20 to 21, 1968, the hopes of millions of people ended that they could live in a freer country. They ended crushed under the tracks of tanks of the so-called friendly states and with the help of domestic traitors. Regimes change, but people remain the same. We remember August 1968 as a memento, so that we... (translated)
The article presents a quiz focused on the August occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, which had a significant impact on the lives of generations of Czechs and Slovaks, and encourages readers to test their knowledge of this historical period. (translated)
