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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