Seven Days to Remember - 53 min Documentary

[GoBlessYourSelf]

Me tohle sere ze Cesi zapomneli ze jsme Husiti!

[HelenaXVI]

Well, this invasion was pretty humane. As far as I'm concerned nobody was imprisoned or killed during the Russian invasion. In the same period, Americans dropped almost 3 times more bombs on Vietnam than ALL the bombs used by ALL nations during ALL of WW2 and in the beginning even offered the French nukes against the Vietnamese.

Long live freedom. And napalm.

[1683Jordan]

The goal of this invasion was to prevent Czechoslovakia to become a 'second Romania'...check out historian Larry Watts ;)

[kura83janko]

whole world did nothing...they fucked up with our fathers. West and east. Both....

[lukebccb]

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia ended the possibility of socialism permanently. The ideals of humanist socialism envisioned by the 19th Marxist was forever tainted by the Soviet "socialism" and from that day forward "socialism" was an anethama in person's opinion.

Rather than seeing thru the spread of socialism to the people worldwide Lenin's bolshevism ensured that the term "socialism" would be a damning term.

[Meroviggian]

@lukebccb i disagree. this movement showed that some people really managed to got away from this endless dead communist movement. even Dubcek didnt make it, his reformist action is still a magnificent example for the birth of the social-democracy :)

[hackj41]

The Czeckslovakian leader (Alexander Dubcek) tried to lessen Soviet oprresive regime(lessening sensorship etc) and even though Dubcek did not technically break the Warsaw Pact the Russian spies reported to Moscow that Dubcek had "bad" intentions towards the Warsaw Pact so Russian made a move. A suprisingly peacefull invasion. Gorbachevs famous phrase, "socialism with a human face" In other words, socialism but more friendly, Less Opressive, and likable. At least that's how it looked on paper.

[TheVeneth]

ALL JEWS ON BOTH SIDES.. fairly simple after all..

[wojbert]

brezniev, criminalist, 

[marcusos1111]

isnt there a movie about his????

[hectorbolshevik]

@marcusos1111: Unbearable Lightness of Being with Daniel Day-Lewis. It was a well made movie, but after it showed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the movie slows down and becomes relativelt boring.

[Ixtulu]

Summer 1968 I was a boy in Vienna. But my wife Zdenka lived in Czechoslowakia. she was also 10. She lived in a childrenhouse in Budweis, as the Soviets occupited the CSSR last night. She told me, all children in the boarding-home lived in big fear. They watched TV to all these terrible pictures, like - killed people on the streets. Zdenka told me, mainly younger people got killed and this was so horrific for them. In Austria we lived in fear too, we had the Cold War and this time was dangerous.

[hlimkb]

the west did nothing?

us sent special forces in indo china but not czech?

[davidneale1]

@hlimkb

The problem with the Cold War was the US could not directly challenge the Soviets in their most tightly-held sphere of influence (the eastern Europe satellites) without risking a much larger head-to-head conflict with the full force of the Red Army. Vietnam was far enough away for Russia to only sort or care, but they would've flipped if the USA resorted to a military solution in their backyard. For LBJ, Czechoslovakia was not worth the risk.

[HergotH01]

After the invasion, they left there tens, perhaps hundred of thousand soliders permanently. Goverment was changed, and era of "normalization" and brutal propaganda took in. But after all of that, moscow did not really achieved what it wanted - hundreds of thousands left the czech party, hundreds of thousand who "believed" in communism realized its true face by this tratchery. Also, tens of thousands (usually crucial and most valuable intelligence) emigrated.

[Linz748916]

Another superb documentary from Journeyman! Thanks for posting

[rafeh1]

us went around killing in chile and uruguay.

now the skankies openly killed 1M (one million) innocent iraqis on a war based on pure lies. These same chosen media liars do not have anything to say. whereas with re to the soviet union they were all self righteous. soviet only killed a few hundred in czechoslovakia whie us skanies killed 1M+ and continue to do so..

[SocialistInt]

Pots and Kettles.

[Muhammedloveskids]

@rafeh1

1 milion died due to violance. most of them by religious violance with no US troops involved.

stop being a moron. Maybe also ask how many the sovjetes killed in Afghanistan, and in their own nation, hint the count is over 50 million

[bmacprg]

@rafeh1 - [sarecasm] well you sure sound like you know your stuff :) haahah what a fool.

[635greenwood]

i had no idea that this had happened!  But i do not understand what the CSSR was trying to accomplish?

[LKHK76]

What we were trying to accomplish? Release ourselves from deadly hug of the Russian bear.

[Nauro50]

Well, it's not easy to sum it up, but basically a more liberal wing of communist party, lead by Alexander Dubcek, tried to lessen oppresion of regime and passed some liberal reforms. "Socialism with human face" it was called. And it would probably worked too. But Moscow did not liked it...

[hlimkb]

@Nauro50

what will happen if the west help the czech?

[BunkyOhare]

@Nauro50 well said N5, well said. thats how I read it at the time. I was 22 and listened to the English services of Radio Moscow, VOA, BBC "world service", Radio Prague, and a dozen others on short wave. I was very sympathetic to the USSR and all it had gone through from Napolion to Hitler. That stopped 22nd August 1968. I think that was the beginning of the end for the USSR, people I knew to be card carriers, put them on the fire. I am proud to have some dear Czech & Slovak friends. 

[Meroviggian]

@BunkyOhare their end was waaay before. In the civil war of greece in 1945, communists did TERRIBLE things to people

[Meroviggian]

@Nauro50 Dubcek thought as a socialdemocrat :)) good for him

[HergotH01]

Long story short - during the era since since 1948 and cca 1964 there was truly regime of terror. Too many innocent had suffered and died. Everything went to shit.

In time preceding to prague spring pople finally realized that something is wrong, that country is not what it should be. Idealists and more reasonable people came in goverment. Stalin was dead and critizied. SO they tried to build a "new" real socialism, with no opression, humane, to do reforms on economy and human rights.

[HergotH01]

Soviets of course seen is a threat. A country in their western block, highly developed and industrialized, a founding stone of their power in the central europe.. they wanted the regime of "moscow dictate" to go on.

They did not want human rights or reforms, because it would weaken their influence here, on important strategic place. So they did the only thing they know - they sended tanks and armies to stop the reforms.

[smoochym]

There is nothing humane about socialism. It's very definition implies theft and violence.

[jamsmi174]

this is amazing that people can set here at a PC and know more about what happened than the pres. of the US ...

ya know he gets reports from CIA .. FBI and Secret service and all those people ..but people that dont know their own parents name .. know more than the President.

[lechinhluan]

Also in 1968 the Tet Offensive was broken in South Vietnam. Within months hundreds thousand communists sacrificed their lives to oust the imperialist US to bring South VN to Soviet bloc. They were told that USSR was not imperialist, USSR always respected the sovereignties of other nations.

[hadassa25]

V krajině přelíbezné zavraždili víru...

[FLACSC74]

These Russian soldiers in 1968 were HOt as hell

[vitoduval]

The Soviets were also in negotiations with the US about arms talks but LBJ broke it off after the invasion, this set talks back 4 years until Nixon went to China.

[Gilnar13]

hey, this is cool. There were some foreign reporters in Prague 1968? I thought we were cut off...

[Rollstuhlmann]

This is all probibly stock footage or footage discovered after the wall fell, that was made into a documentary far after this event. After the incident, a report made that questioned the Soviet occupation wouldn't have been made due to the regime change that occurred in which the regime was pro-Soviet.

[journeymanpictures]

This is true, the film was made using footage smuggled out of Prague.

[MargusKiistheCritic]

There where thousands of journalists from West in Prague these days. Later their presence was widely used in Soviet propaganda which claimed that imprerealist and their spies tried to destroy socialist system.

[joedhoun]

Is this just part of the film ...

[ghbg00107]

I vividly remember these events in the summer of '68. I was only about 20 years of age and I felt very angry about the brutal Soviet repression of the freedom-loving Czechoslovakians. My arsehole of a shop steward of the time (The British trade union movement was run from Moscow in those days)tried to excuse this outrage as counter-revolutionary elements trying to overthrow the proletariat and the "popular" international socialist movement of the masses!

[scoobyDx]

disgusting. IN my experience people speak like that from the comforts of economically free societies.

[borntobelegend]

i miss the Communsit Russians that dominated

[dincz]

What exactly do you miss?

[mfyyre]

How could anyone miss the brutal repression of basic human freedom? I hope you're being sarcasitic, sicko.

[OsamaBinForgotten2]

It was the Rockefellers that created the illusion of communism, it was really run like a oil bussiness.

[tumsabai]

To OsamaBinforgotten2: forget your Allah Muslim Mother Fucking Ass!