21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops | Memory of Nations

Václav Přibyl - second from left, Buzuluk

Václav Přibyl

* 1923 †︎ 2015

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Czech minority in the former USSR

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 3. - 6. 11. 1943 - Battle of Kiev and 1 more anniversaries

Witness Igor Prieložný during eyd recording.

Igor Prieložný

* 1957

Political prisoner, The Sportsmen, Relatives of important personalities

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 26.8.-11.9.1972 - Summer Games of the XX Olympiad , Munich , Games of the XXIII Olympiad, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall and 2 more anniversaries

Hana Přikrylová at her graduation in Karolinum, 1969

Hana Přikrylová

* 1944

Holocaust, People helping Jews during WWII, Forced labour during the WW2, Relatives of important personalities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

1941 - 1945 - Transports to the concentration camps, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Valerie Princlová in the 1980s

Valerie Princlová

* 1932

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Relative of a political prisoner

20. 12. 1944 - 25. 4. 1945 Bombing of Pilsen, 18. 4. - 10. 5. 1945 - osvobození západní části ČSR americkou armádou, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

A young married couple Princes

Mgr. Květoslava Princová

* 1950

Dissident, Charter 77 signatory, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Doing his military service II, 1951-1953

Antonín Procházka

* 1929 †︎ 2023

National minorities, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Bohumír Procházka at the Jan Žižka Military School in 1956

Ing. Bohumír Procházka

* 1940

Journalist, Writer, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

At the military service, March 10, 1953

Jaromír Procházka

* 1937

Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Relative of a political prisoner, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

As a soldier

Jiří Procházka

* 1924

Non-Catholic clerical, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII and 5 more anniversaries

Ludvík Procházka, Prague, mid-1970s

Ludvík Procházka

* 1958

Witness of local events from the Communist era, The underground

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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