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August 22, 2008

Soviets Attacked Czechs' 'Virus Of Freedom' In '68

by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR, USA - When Czechoslovakians woke on Aug. 21, 1968, they found their country occupied by 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops. Moscow officials feared that the Czechoslovak Communist Party's embrace of democratic reforms would infect the rest of the Soviet sphere.

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