EuroNews - Europeans - The Prague Spring - 40 years on

For a few months in 1968, Czechoslovakia briefly threw off some of the restrictions of hard-line communism. From March of that year, censorship disappeared, a free press flourished, and Czechs had a taste of change. But it all came to an abrupt end, when Soviet tanks invaded to bring the country back into line. In this edition of Europeans, how the Prague Spring paved the way for the Velvet Revolution 21 years later.

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[ptdlugosz]

We (Europeans), must never forget our past! Or else, how can we value the future?

[neunaranyar]

You should learn what mean "communism", "democracy", "socialism" and "war". And you should keep in mind difference between "communism" and "socialism", between "democracy" and reality. And you should learn how many Soviet people (not only Russian) died within The WW2. And you should know that Stalin was Georgian.

[janak19771977]

yep in 1968 the western europeans turned their back on us and let us rot just like they would again if anything happend again

screw the eu

[Reoon]

They were freeing the Europe from Nazis as anyone else.

No more no less (while at school in communism time we were thought it otherwise). Actually at the begining of the Hitlers advance they even made treacherous pact with him (!) and they only started to fight him when he finely betrayed them an atacked Soviet Union.

But the main reason is not in how they fighted him or not. The reason for liking someone is in WHO HE IS!

Communism brought almost comparable evil and suffering like the Nazis

[8075xOsKeDxF33]

weren't they Communists who freed Europe from the Nazis... why do you[Europeans] don't like Communists so much??