Invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in front of the Czechoslovak Radio building

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… remember that around the nineteenth or twentieth of August [1968], when the negotiations in Čierna pri Čope took place, … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Reason for emigration

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… “As the regime was getting more restrictive after 1968, I was basically waiting for a moment to emigrate. As …

The character of the Czech person

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… me, at first it was an explosion of intoxication, the year 1968, beauty, thinking that everything is going to be just …

Deportees versus emigrants

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… “Then things quietened down a bit, and it wasn’t until after 1968 that people started leaving again. But this time they …

During the normalisation era, the boss had to write evaluations on subordinates

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… one behaved during the time [of the occupation in August 1968]. What about his family, his religion, whether he went …

Why to possibly let yourself get killed

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… me and I wasn't in the party, but I still lost my job in 1968. Nowadays, my grandson doesn't understand why I went to …

I didn't stand on the flatbed in the gatehouse

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… you went and got interrogated about your whereabouts in 1968, what you were doing and such. Well, so I was also the … they said, 'So, comrade Říha, what did you do in the year 1968?' And I replied: 'Are you serious? You know me from the …

The Jircháře seminars and their impact on future events

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… translations including biblical ones or things related to 1968 which were then published in the Vyšehrad publishing … This is where the things which bore fruit later in 1968 were formed. The crystallization of the ability to …

Inspections at the Silesian Institute in Opava in 1970

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… in charge of the Silesian Institute for several years. In 1968, he did not get into anything because he was seriously … of all those resolutions and events during the spring of 1968, I guarantee you that you will get out of it without …

It was a lie upon a lie

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… "When the Russians came here in 1968, I also spoke against it in the company, but I couldn't … but we couldn't say that we were against the Russians, in 1968. Even though I know what happened here, in Prague, that …