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To commemorate tragic August 1968, when Soviet-led forces crushed the reforms of the Prague Spring, I'm re-reading The Black Book compiled by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences a few months later.The topic was so compelling that a paperback soon followed
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25 August 1968 “We began to try to bring about a that would truly have a humane face….Today, our fatherland is occupied by the armies of certain Warsaw Pact members….a situation was created that threatens to destroy all trust in socialism.”


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56 years ago this week, forces of the Warsaw Pact invaded , crushing the socialist reform attempt of the . Josef Koudelka of Magnum took photos that became an iconic documentary record


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