Photo: Michaela Danelová, iROZHLAS.cz
August 21, 1968, went down in Czechoslovak history as the day that Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops crushed the Prague Spring reforms and the hopes of millions of people yearning for freedom and democracy. At a solemn ceremony outside the Czech Radio building, political leaders laid wreaths to honor those who lost their lives in the invasion and highlighted the role of free media – then and now.
Twenty years after the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the Prague Spring emerged after a dark period – a time of hope and belief in a better future that, however, lasted only a very short time.
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Author: Romana Grajcarová