They closed the borders

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… that we’d come and support it all. I see it positively. In 1968, I was small then, I was ten years old. I remember …

An act of remembrance thwarted one year after the occupation

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… she’d lived a few days and then died [she died on 23 August 1968 from injuries caused by a shot to the neck - ed.]. They …

We never thought of giving up on this family

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… beautiful years in Bátovce were over. But then again in 1968, the return of my father, the start of the choir in …

Publication of V. Hoshovsky's first works

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… preserved. And so his first book was published in Moscow in 1968. It was followed by further research, and since my …

Leaving Czechoslovakia

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… Everything was going well, until 1968 when everything came tumbling down and you had to …

The immortal flag

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… but no one was interested in it. This was on August 21, 1968. A huge crowd of people had gathered in Wenceslas …

On the day of the occupation, she returned from England, turned and went back

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… "Then it was 1968, everything looked great, censorship and all just cool. …

Alena Čápová before the vetting committee in 1969

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… "I was there about September [1968, after the occupation] to get my pay, and there were …

The selfless help of Professor Ivan Poldauf

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… "Well, this guy, I met him in the corridor after August [1968], and he says to me, 'Colleague...' He called us …

The wedding of Vladimír Mlynář

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… are well-known, Vladimír Mlynář, the son of Mr. Mlynář from 1968, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist …