Originally posted by FUNKED1
Maslo there were some riots on Aug 21 1969, put down by USSR troops. Nice attempt at changing the subject though. The fact is that Soviet occupation of Czech was quite a big success. It was not until the USSR itself collapsed that the Czechs had the balls to fight again.
Aug 21 ?
there were no demonstration... at loeast not big one.... it was hard normalization... if you look bad on red star, you would end in a jail for next 50 years and all your family members as well
there was
21 Aug 1968 = Invasion of Czechoslovakia by the armies of five states of the Warsaw Pact
what exactly did you mean ... ??
i found only this
07 Aug 1964 = Outbreak of war in Viet Nam
05 Jan 1968 = Pro-reform Alexander Dubcek elected as Chief of Czechoslovak Communist Party
30 Mar 1968 = Gen. Ludvik Svoboda, president of Czechoslovakia
04 Apr 1968 = Martin Luther King murdered in Memphis
21 Aug 1968 = Invasion of Czechoslovakia by the armies of five states of the Warsaw Pact
30 Oct 1968 = Law on federative arrangement within Czechoslovakia
16 Jan 1969 = Self-immolation (as a political protest) of student Jan Palach in Prague
19 Jan 1969 = Student Jan Palach dies at Prague
?? Apr 1969 = G. Husak replaces A. Dubcek at the head of the Communist Party, after "Ice-hockey Events"
27 Jan 1973 = End of war in Viet Nam
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SpanSoft/tl_cze.txt