Soviet tanks crush Prague Spring
August 20, 1968
Alexander Dubcek's reformist Czechoslovak government had tried to build socialism with a human face: censorship lifted, debate opened, reform promised. The Soviet Union sent two hundred thousand Warsaw Pact troops across the border overnight. Czechs stood in front of tanks with flowers. The thaw ended and the Brezhnev Doctrine was born.
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Also in 1968 (8 other events on record)
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- Martin Luther King assassinated · North America · Politics
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- Paris erupts in May 1968 · Europe · Politics
- RFK assassinated in Los Angeles · North America · Politics
- Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico · North America · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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