“We commemorate to learn”: 57 years since Warsaw Pact invasion, President Pavel relates 1968 to present day at Czech Radio ceremony

On August 21st 1968, people woke to find that the hopeful era of the Prague Spring had ended, as tanks from Warsaw-Pact countries rolled into the Czechoslovak capital. At a solemn ceremony outside the Czech Radio building, political leaders, including President Pavel, laid wreaths in commemoration.

The period of reform and optimism known as the Prague Spring began in January 1968, with the election of reformist Alexander Dubček as First Secretary of the Communist Party.

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Author: Danny Bate