The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia: Soviet
tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia on the evening of 20th August 1968.
Dubcek ordered the Czech people not to respond with violence.
Nonetheless,
there was a great deal of non-violent civil disobedience. For example, many
students stood in the way of tanks holding anti-invasion banners. Dubcek was
arrested and taken to Moscow where Brezhnev tearfully told him that he had
betrayed socialism. Dubcek was forced to sign the Moscow Protocol, which
committed the Czech government to ‘protect socialism’ by reintroducing
censorship and removing political opposition.
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