How she experienced 21 August 1968 in Prague

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… How she experienced 21 August 1968 in Prague … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Emigration

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… get the passports. And we did, and we emigrated in October 1968, legally, with emigration passports, while most people … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

A tank arrived at the dairy

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… documents, that I worked in a dairy for a month in August 1968, so it was child labor, because I wasn't fifteen years … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Attack by Warsaw Pact troops and decision to emigrate

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… “But on the night of the twenty-first [August 1968], my wife wakes me up: ‘Do you hear that?’ Heavy planes … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

An encounter with the Soviet occupiers

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… “I came home in August 1968. My smithy was in Dejvice, near Ořechovka; I called old … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

We didn't consider emigration the right solution

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… to Prague every now and then. Once, he took us to Iona, in 1968. He was to give a lecture on how he had... how he felt … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

My father, a former communist official, roller-skating in a warehouse

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… of the Communist Party. Well, it [the occupation in August 1968] made him so angry that he threw away the book, and … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Military vehicles with speakers were on the border

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… "I have a specific memory of 1968. No troops came to Varnsdorf. We live in an area where … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Your party left you today, and your husband will tomorrow.

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… husband will leave tomorrow.' It really wasn't easy back in 1968. Dad didn't have a job after that. Later on, he started … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

The relaxed 1960s

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… My father also recalled it and even said that 1964-1968 were the best years of his life." … 5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …