Events in Czechoslovakia (1968)

Coat of arms of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic near the building of the Cerna nad Tisou railway station.

A train approaches the station.

People at the station waiting for the train.

Brezhnev L.I., Kadar J., Kosygin A.N., Suslov M.A., Podgorny N.V., Svoboda L. during a meeting.

Text of the letter of Czechoslovak workers with signatures, published in the Pravda newspaper.

Workers' self-defense units on a square in Prague in 1968, general view of the square (from above).

Leaflets on the walls of Prague buildings, people reading leaflets.

People signing an appeal to the authorities.

Inscriptions calling for an independent policy on the walls of houses, people passing by one of the inscriptions.

Kadar J., Podgorny, Zhivkov T., Svoboda L., Brezhnev, Gomulka V., Ulbricht V., Ceausescu N., Suslov, Shelest P.E. During the meeting of the leaders of the Warsaw Pact member states in Dresden on March 23, 1968, the national flags of the member states on the balcony of the palace where the meeting was held.

Zhivkov, Ceausescu, Ulbricht, Gomulka, Brezhnev, Kosygin sign a joint statement, Cyrankevich Yu., Podgorny are sitting nearby.

The face of Freedom L. The report on the meeting in Dresden and the text of the joint statement in the Soviet press.

A rally at one of the industrial enterprises of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, a demonstration in Prague, people carry red banners.

Faces of representatives of the Czechoslovak opposition.

View of the rally in Prague, a speaker is speaking, the participants of the rally applaud.

Newsreel of the Hungarian events of 1956: armed groups on the city streets, a demonstration in Budapest, a woman standing on a windowsill waving a Hungarian flag, corpses of those killed during the fighting in Budapest hanging from trees.

A portrait of Lenin on one of the corpses.

A Soviet tank on the streets of Prague in 1968. People on the streets of the city during the entry of Soviet troops into Prague.

Columns of Soviet armored vehicles on the streets of Prague.

Residents of Prague on Wenceslas Square at the foot of the monument.

A column of tanks stands on the street, soldiers sit on armor.

A Soviet military transport plane flies over Prague.

Soviet soldiers among the residents of Prague.

A protest demonstration against the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia.

A Soviet officer examines a rifle taken as a trophy after a skirmish with Czechoslovak pro-Western militants.

Wounded Soviet soldiers.

The wounded, lying on stretchers, give interviews to reporters.

Delivery of a wounded Soviet tanker to a Prague hospital.

A column of Soviet troops moves along the streets of Prague, people shake their fists at the soldiers.

An officer on an armored personnel carrier gestures for people to move out of the way, people stand on the side of the road and shake their fists, the face of a tanker.

People are trying to insert a piece of iron pipe between the rollers of a tank, they follow the tank.

A man standing by the wall of a building calls for protests, faces of Prague residents.

People on the streets with transistor radios in their hands are catching and listening to Western radio stations.

A TV screen, a TV report on the entry of Soviet troops into Prague.

Leaflets and newspapers are being scattered on the streets of Prague.

A Soviet tank column moves along the streets of Prague, people are trying to set the tanks on fire, a burning Soviet tank, tankers are putting out the fire.

People at a rally applaud the speakers of the Czechoslovak opposition.

Riots on the streets of Prague, burning armored vehicles, the wounded carried away on stretchers, taken away in ambulances.

People around a burning bus.

Firefighters extinguish burning buildings, the skeletons of burnt buses.

View of a building after the fire.

Residents of Prague enter into a discussion with the Soviet military, blocking the road to armored vehicles.

People argue with a Soviet officer.

The face of a Czechoslovak soldier.

Local residents supporting the introduction of troops, among the Soviet military.

Residents of Prague among tanks on the streets of the city, erecting an improvised barrier.