In the third week of August, 1968, the city of Prague was nearly lost. In the middle of the night of August 20, 250,000 troops from five Eastern bloc countries, at the order of the Soviet rulers in Moscow, entered and occupied the capital of Czechoslovakia. Russian, East German, Polish, Bulgarian and Hungarian soldiers, their guns in their hands, sat on top of 2,000 tanks and trucks that rumbled through the streets.

The people of Czechoslovakia