It's 50 years since the Prague Spring, when it seemed that socialism could wear a human face. The dream was broken by the invasion of the 'fraternal' armies of the Warsaw Pact, and Russian-controlled ...

In the West, the 1968 generation is generally seen in a postive light. But the heroes of the 1968 uprising in Prague see themselves as historical failures. No one now remembers exactly which office ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. An invading army's tanks on the streets of Prague, that jewel of European capital cities. A peaceful political reform movement ...