As I sadly expected, a major tragic human event in history was barely acknowledged by the major media outlets, and that includes Syracuse.com and the Post-Standard. Aug. 21 marked the 55th anniversary ...

Five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. The historic events unfolded as reformers in Czechoslovakia sought to overturn Stalinism, revive a stagnant economy and return ...

Alan Higbie signed up for the Army to avoid the infantry; he ended up talking to a revolution. It all started with a crystal ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - The overthrow of the Czechoslovak regime of Alexander Dubcek and its replacement by pro-Soviet leaders was a foregone conclusion, diplomatic sources said today. Soviets ...

PRAGUE, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Czech nationals have been sending exactly 1,968 crowns ($80) to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia and to commemorate the 1968 invasion of then Czechoslovakia ...

Elsewhere, Hungary threatens to send migrants to Brussels; Czech Senate approves postal voting; and Polish government suffers setback in bid to put central bank chief on trial. It is said that the ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Ludvik Vaculik, an author, journalist and anti-communist dissident whose “Two Thousand Words” manifesto became a key document of the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement that contributed ...