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 ...

As I sadly expected, a major tragic human event in history was barely acknowledged by the major media outlets, and that includes Syracuse.com and the Post-Standard. Aug. 21 marked the 55th anniversary ...

Hours after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Romania's communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, denounced the invasion to a crowd of thousands in central Bucharest. The crushing ...

THOUGH water cannon and police truncheons kept last week’s demonstrations in Czechoslovakia under control, mere force is not likely to suppress other aftereffects of last year’s invasion. Reflecting ...

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 ...

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and disturbances across western Europe and the US were echoed in events in Egypt in 1968 In the course of 2018, many people from different countries, regions and ...

Soviet-era dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya has died in Paris at the age of 77. The poet and translator was best remembered for her protest in Moscow’s Red Square in 1968 over the Red Army’s invasion ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Vasil Bilak, a former hard-line communist leader who paved the way for Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, has died. He was 96. Slovakia's Communist Party said Bilak ...

"I remember the noise made by a tank unit on August 21, 1968," said Kvetoslava Dufkova, a pensioner from the small town of Davle just south of Prague, who was 14 at the time. "The Soviets then arrived ...