What the records say
- When
- 25 Aug 1968
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 3
- Coordinates
- 49.47° N, 17.11° E
- Description
- Soviet attack on civilians during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Bloody Sunday (1968)
Soviet attack on civilians during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 25 August 1968 when Soviet soldiers shot three unarmed civilians in Prostějov during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nine others were injured.
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