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Propaganda-fuelled Soviet soldiers were ready to take on American and German armies during the 1968 invasion of former Czechoslovakia — before they realised the...
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In August 1968 Soviet tanks rolled into communist Czechoslovakia to crush a burgeoning democratic reform movement known as the Prague Spring. Here is a...
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In a symbolic gesture on August 25, 1968, that launched the political dissident movement, eight people demonstrated on Moscow’s Red Square against the Soviet...
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The day that Soviet-led armies rolled into communist Czechoslovakia to put an end to a pro-democracy movement changed Milan Tesar’s life. “I saw tanks...
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At dawn on August 21, 1968, residents of Prague were shocked to find their city occupied by Soviet tanks. During the night, around 30...
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Slovakia on Friday denied it knowingly took part in the kidnapping last year of a Vietnamese oil executive from Berlin after media reports claimed...
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Slovak prosecutors said on Friday that they had charged the leader of a far-right party that holds seats in parliament with promoting extremism after...
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The pro-Kremlin Night Wolves bikers have set up a “European branch” just northeast of the Slovak capital Bratislava, triggering concern in the EU and...
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Slovak farmers on tractors joined thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital Bratislava on Friday, in the latest of a string of demonstrations triggered...
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Slovakia’s president on Wednesday called on the government to address the demands of farmers who drove their tractors into the capital to protest against...