The Citizen (Gauteng)

CZECH SCOUTS RECALL SOVIET INVASION

- Picture: EPA-EFE

Members of Czech Scouts attend a ceremony to commemorat­e the 50th anniversar­y of the invasion of Warsaw Pact members in Czechoslov­akia in August 1968, outside the Czech Radio building in Prague, Czech Republic, yesterday. Czech and Slovak people mark on August 21 the 50th anniversar­y of the Soviet-led invasion in Czechoslov­akia in 1968 that crushed the liberal reforms and ended an era known as the ‘Prague Spring’.

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