PRAGUE — Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? In 1968, the question was put to the test when the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, ...

On this day in 1968, Alexander Dubček’s experiments in “socialism with a human face” were met by the force of Moscow. Eliot Wilson tells us about the crushing of the Prague Spring in the latest ...

In the early hours of an August day in 1968, I was awakened by the continuous thunder of heavy planes flying low overhead – we lived relatively close to Prague’s largest airport. It was about 3:00 a.m ...

Alexander Dubček introduced sweeping political and cultural reforms in Czechoslovakia, loosening censorship and seeking greater freedoms under Communist rule. Soviet leaders saw those changes as ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as euphemistic “peacekeepers,” with somewhere between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian troops ranged along the ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - A Soviet Army monument in Sofia was painted pink in an "artistic apology" for Bulgaria's support of Soviet troops which crushed Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring uprising against its ...

Inspired by the true story of a Czechoslovakian public radio station, the Jiri Mádl-directed drama centers on two young brothers during the Prague Spring and the aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion.

People stand on an abandoned tank in a street while pedestrians walk by during the Czech Crisis, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 29th 1968. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ...