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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under the glowering gaze of the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square stands a forty-year-old Russian tank. Its fuel tanks are strapped vulnerably to its rear and its gun aims at nothing in ...

"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 ...