From Prague Spring to Soviet winter: 50 years since the Warsaw Pact invasion #breakingnews #breaking #worldhealines

More than 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalisation, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.

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