Czech Invasion 1968
By Amos Chapple RFE By the 1960s, thousands of Czechs and Slovaks had been imprisoned or otherwise persecuted for their politics, including through show trials and executions. Under Stalin and his successors Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Czechoslovakia was a nation living in fear. 1968 In January 1968, Alexander Dubcek (center) took leadership of Czechoslovakia’s Communist …

