The Czech Republic and Slovakia say the film is misleading and "falsifies historical truth." By Vladimir Kozlov The Czech Republic and Slovakia are upset by a recent Russian TV documentary on the 1968 ...

Vladimír Lammer. Occupying forces crossed the Czechoslovakian border shortly before midnight; all larger cities were occupied by the morning. Wenceslas Square, Prague (caption provided by Czech Center ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The events unfolding in Ukraine potentially hold dire implications for the future, but the war also brings back memories of other historical conflicts in the region. That includes some ...

My interest in writing about Ivan Passer and Milos Forman’s escape from Czechoslovakia goes back more than 25 years, since almost the beginning of my acquaintance with Passer. I met him when he was a ...

FILE In this file photo taken in Aug. 20, 1968, thousands of protesters are seen crowding at Wasceslas square in down town Prague, Czechoslovakia, demonstrating against the Russian invasion. The Czech ...

The Czech Foreign Ministry has criticized Russian legislation that it says misrepresents the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The ministry statement, released on June 3, came amid reports that ...

This is the second part of a four-part series. Part one was posted on August 28. The next stage in the crisis of Stalinism erupted in the context of the deep economic and political crisis of ...

Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from the Warsaw Pact nations—on Aug. 21, 1968, invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of political liberalization that became known ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help ...

RALSKO, Czech Republic -- Judging by the smell of mold, the crumbling concrete, and the soot-covered electronics, it is hard to believe that just a few decades ago this abandoned bunker about an hour ...

Czech producers are working on at least two groundbreaking features to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the crushing by Soviet armored forces of the “Prague Spring” democracy movement of 1968.

THE SOVIET MILITARY INTERVENTION in Czechoslovakia in August 1968 was inevitable once the Kremlin realized that political ideological and economic pressure would not create any internal force capable ...