1968 Red Square demonstration

When

25 Aug 1968

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

55.75° N, 37.62° E

Description

demonstration in Moscow against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Placed at the coordinates of its Polish Wikipedia article.

Demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

The 1968 Red Square demonstration took place in Moscow on 25 August 1968. It was a protest by eight demonstrators against the invasion of Czechoslovakia on the night of 20–21 August 1968 by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, crushing the Prague Spring, the challenge to centralised planning and censorship by communist leader Alexander Dubček.

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