On the morning of August 21, 1968, as Soviet tanks rolled into Prague, a young photographer named Josef Koudelka began to take pictures, and he didn’t stop for the next week, as the people of the city ...

On the night of August 20-21, 1968, about 250,000 troops and other personnel from the U.S.S.R., Poland, Hungary, East Germany, and Bulgaria crossed into Czechoslovakia from the north, east, and south.

FILE In this file photo taken in Aug. 20, 1968, thousands of protesters are seen crowding at Wasceslas square in down town Prague, Czechoslovakia, demonstrating against the Russian invasion. The Czech ...

At dawn on August 21, 1968, residents of Prague were shocked to find their city occupied by Soviet tanks. During the night, around 30 Soviet divisions -- backed by units from Bulgaria, East Germany, ...

An exhibition of iconic photographs has gone on show in Bucharest, Romania. The photographs capture the moment in 1968 when Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. During the seven ...

A statue in Prague of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev has been vandalized on the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Prague 6 district said on its Facebook page on August ...

Czechs and Slovaks on Tuesday marked 50 years since Soviet tanks crushed the "Prague Spring" democratic reform drive, while protesters used the anniversary to rail against the current Czech government ...

Through his camera's lens, Josef Koudelka elevated the horrors of incursion to biblical heights. The Czechoslovakian exile's subject was the August 1968 invasion of Prague, a horrific series of events ...

Here is a recap of the shock intervention that reined in the Soviet satellite state, its aspirations for democracy warded off for another 20 years. "At 11:00 pm, Soviet, Polish, East German, Bulgarian ...

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech and Slovak governments have criticized what they see as historical revisionism by Russia about the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Czech Foreign Ministry said ...