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Fifty years ago, the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia killed more than 100 people and shattered that country’s attempts to reform communist rule.
Daniel Kumermann was a teenager when Soviet troops crushed the 1968 Prague Spring uprising. He remembers “hundreds of tanks rolling around the streets, many destroying parked cars where it was ...
The annual Prague Spring Festival is one of the biggest musical events in Central Europe. This year's festival is gearing up right now. We'll go back to a performance from last year's series of ...
Zeman, who joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1968 during the Prague Spring, was kicked out of the party two years later -- reportedly over his criticism of the invasion and occupation.