NPR

Prague Spring: An Exercise in Democracy

Of all the 1968 movements, the Czechoslovak Prague Spring was perhaps the only one that was not a generational conflict: Sons and daughters were united with their parents in wanting a more democratic ...
dw

Prague Spring recalled 50 years later

Alexander Dubcek's election in 1968 led to unprecedented reforms in communist Czechoslovakia. But his attempt at "socialism with a human face" failed. It did, however, plant a seed, reports Ian ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Czechs, Slovaks Mark 50 Years Since Soviet-Led Crackdown On 'Prague Spring'

PRAGUE -- Czechs and Slovaks on August 21 are marking 50 years since Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring reform movement -- an attempt by Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek to put ...
Daily Mail

Fifty years since hope was crushed by Soviet tanks: Czechs and Slovaks honour the 50 killed in 'Prague Spring' when Russian soldiers put a brutal end to a push for democracy

Fifty years ago today, thousands of Soviet tanks rolled across the Czechoslovakia border just before midnight. They had been sent by the Kremlin to crush the burgeoning democratic reform movement, ...