Soviet tanks end attempted reforms in Czechoslovakia, August 1968 (Photo: German Historical Museum)
In the early hours of morning, Radio Prague announces: "Yesterday, on 20 August 1968 at 11 p.m., Warsaw Pact troops crossed the borders of the Czech Socialist Republic. (…)."
The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia views this act not only as going against the existing relations between the socialist states, but also as a denial of the elementary norms of international law. The "Prague Spring" is put down by troops from the Warsaw Pact.less
