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

Wedding photo of Magda Čtvrtníková

Mgr. Magda Čtvrtníková

* 1949

Historian, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witness of local events from the Communist era, A cultural celebrity, Art and censorship

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. 1939 – Closure of Czech universities

Witness Miroslav Čuban as a child with his parents František Čuban and Hana Čubanová in 1943

Miroslav Čuban

* 1936

Victim of forced relocation, Boy Scouts, Sokol, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 21. – 28.3.1969 – Disorders related to the celebration of Czech hockey team’s, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

As a young man

František Čuban

* 1941

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

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Marie Čuboková (Drozdová) - 1948

Marie Čuboková

* 1931 †︎ 2018

Victim of forced relocation, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation, Inhabitants of Subcarpathian Rus, Memory of vanished settlements, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

2.11.1938 - First Vienna Award (Hungarian annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia and South Slovakia), 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1945 – Withdrawal from the Carpatho-Russia in favour of the USSR, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR and 3 more anniversaries

Milena Cubrová in the 1960s

Mgr. Milena Cubrová

* 1925 †︎ 2025

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

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Karel Cudlín

Doc. Karel Cudlín

* 1960

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 9.11.1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1990 - 1991 - Odsun sovětských vojsk z Československa

Ilias Cumaropulos

Ilias Cumaropulos

* 1933

Greece, Emigrant, A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Greek minority in former Czechoslovakia and 1 more categories

28.10.194 - 23.4.1941 Greek- Italian war, 6.4. - 23.4.1941 Battle of Greece, 1944 - 1949 Greek civil war, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

First Communion, Zlín, 1963

Josef Čunek

* 1955

Representative of the Church, Catholic clerical, Friars, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Examinee of the State Secret Police – enemy person

1968 - 1970 - Second renewal of Junák, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 5. 7. 1985 Pilgrimage to Velehrad, 12 November 1989 - Canonization of Agnes of Bohemia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Before military service, around 1949

Oldřich Čunek

* 1927

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

1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 19. 6. – 23. 6. 1948 – The Sokol Gathering

Jiří Georg Čupr as a Swedish army officer

Jiří Georg Čupr

* 1943

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Illegal border crossing, Relative of a political prisoner

1991 - 1995 - Croatian War of Independence, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

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