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People stand on an abandoned tank in a street while pedestrians walk by during the Czech Crisis, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 29th 1968. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

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Any efforts to resist the regime were definitively crushed in August 1969. After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, ...

Dozens of people are killed in a massive military clampdown in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries, in August 1968. Several members of the liberal Czechoslovak leadership are arrested, ...