40th anniversary of Prague Spring
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Prague residents carrying a Czechoslovak flag and throwing burning torches attempt to stop a Soviet tank in Prague 21 August 1968 as the Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia.
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