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Seven Days to Remember - 53 min Documentary

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Aug 1968
Forty years ago Soviet tanks rolled into Prague to crush a rebellious Czechoslovakian experiment with socialism with a human face.

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  • 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!

  • 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...

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  • Me tohle sere ze Cesi zapomneli ze jsme Husiti!

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

  • @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 :)

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

  • @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.

  • 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.

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

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