On #ThisDayinHistory 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. It was the largest deployment of military force in Europe since the end of World War II. | HISTORY

50 years ago today, the Czech Republic began a months-long period of "communism with a human face." | HISTORY

🇨🇿 On the night of August 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact troops and tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. | Prague Morning