The Prague Spring, 40 years on

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Russian soldiers, carrying an issue of the Communist Party newspaper Pravda,
photographed on August 21, 1968 on the streets of Prague. The Soviet invasion brought to an end President Alexander Dubcek’s experiment with social and economic reform

On August 20 1968, Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to President Dubcek's liberalising reforms

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