Чехословакия стояла на пороге реставрации капитализма. Социализм с человеческим лицом это утопия, как и горбачевская перестройка. Брежнев, в отличие от Горбачева, это прекрасно понимал.
My aunt escaped to Australia during the Prague spring. It is saddening that it was crushed so violently by the Warsaw pact. Thank you to Romania and Albania for not participating in the invasion 🇷🇴❤️🇦🇱❤️🇨🇿❤️🇸🇰
The blame for sending in the Warsaw troups were their communist Governments not their people's. This is what Putin wants back, Power. Slava freedom democracy peace and prosperity. ✌️ for victory.
Albania couldnt participate even if they wanted to. They were surrounded by Yugoslavia, who opposed Soviet occupation of Cz. Albanian was Chinese ally at the time I think. And was not part of Warsaw pact. Yugoslavia was only one to give support to Cz
They were destroyed during the whole 41 years the communists were in power. Nothing changed. We were occupied for a few hundred years by the Austrians, for 6 years by the Germans and for 41 years by the Soviets.
I was grown up in these 20 years as a half Czech, travelling between Prague and the West where we lived several times a year. I still hate the Russians for what they've done to the beautifull country and also for what they are doing now in Ukraine. Russians have a centuries old tradition of surpression and never to be trusted attitude. It's their DNA.
my mother was 15 on that very day and coming over german border back home from visiting grandparents in east germany. only to find out, GENERATION LOST
Something my exgirlfriends Czechoslovakian grandparents who were part of the WWII resistance told me made me "Had we known what evil was to follow the German occupation we would have ended the resistance and fought to the death beside the Germans".
My neighbors in SF, CA barely escaped Czechoslovakia when they once again faced fascist Russian rule. Moscow is so afraid of Truth, and the UN, so afraid of Moscow. Reruns.
@@jackbarnes9728 Russia is currently engaged in a genocidal war of conquest, and is threatening the whole of Europe with nuclear disaster. Oh and Russia has 6000 nukes.
@@LunaticTheCat i suspect that, along with all the other misinformation that you babble forth, you would be hard pressed to point out the geographical region in which ukrainia is situate (on an unmarked map).
Embedded in this crisis was the mini-crisis of the making of the American war epic movie "The Bridge At Remagen" that was filmed in Czechoslovakia at the time. The scouts had found there a bridge that looked like the Ludendorff bridge on the Rhine at Remagen. It was then the Spring Of Prague & the Czech government allowed the filming. The Americans brought with them some WW2 vintage M-24 light tanks. That was enough for adipose-leonid's professionaliars to accuse the Dubcek government of opening Czechoslovakia to NATO, stoking the fires of calls for invasion from the likes of Wilhelm Ulbricht.
@@johnnotrealname8168 1938 you can, very easily, the French and the British would blame Czechoslovaks for the war if they didn't surrender to Germans. 1968 there's not much they could militarily do, but they didn't even make a proper statement. If it happened in East Germany it would be very different..
@@ablazedguy I highly doubt that, in any case I am not defending the lack of action, it very clearly is German aggression not the Free World. Dude, I hate communists so I boil at that notion but I also hate Lyndon Baines Johnson.
I think it is disingenuous to use events after the countries joined N.A.T.O. to justify them joining N.A.T.O. I despise the commies but not only was there a promise not to move N.A.T.O. East, the Russians were begging the Americans not to do so back in the '90s. I do not blame the Eastern-European countries as much, although by that point N.A.T.O. was pretty useless, since you know but the West should have tried to woo Russia as well as be fraternal.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Russia can think what it wants about it, but it was Czech decision. And motivated exactly by the wish to make sure 1968 is not repeated. That is simple fact about the motivation of Czechs to join NATO and why Czech political representation worked and lobbied so hard in the 1990s to be accepted in NATO (which finally happened in 1999)
@@letecmig This makes no sense every member of N.A.T.O. is also involved not only Czechia. They should also have acknowledged that Russia is not the u.s.s.r. in line with George Herbert Walker Bush's promise.
plan was the infiltrators were to call for help from the soviets at midnight who just happened to be having an exercise near the border. But due to soviet time zone being 1 hr ahead of local time, the soviets came 1hr before the locals call for help !!! A lady laid dinner plates across the road and tanks assumed they were mines and stoped their advance.
@sladetuner8661 Some are, but nowhere near on the same magnitude. Also all of these nations are mostly burning from civil wars and insurgencies instead of old-school invasion and occupation. Some of these civil unrests are instigated by the same agressor too, if you know what's up in Africa and probably will be in Georgia soon. Apples and orangutans.
I can't speak for the Czech people, but apart from some Jewish and gypsy families, all of current Russia's neighbours will confirm that Nazi occupation were less brutal and a marginally lesser evil. Probably shorter duration and fact that first occuation was done by the Red army (1939) not Wehrmacht add to that bias. Perception from anyone of that period is that reds were worse, even it's a huge generalisation and maybe some wartime propaganda. However this mostly comes from human interaction with soldiers and post-war Soviet propaganda completely erased and upturned any traces of other propagandas and facts alike. A common theme recounted from the first sources during the war is - Germans came giving chocolate and other gestures of goodwill and kept order, while Russians looted and trashed everything they wanted and executed anyone suspected of non-loyalty and higher class without scrupulae. Source: my grandparents and their friends.
1956: Hungary, 1968: Czechoslovakia, 1979: Afghanistan, 2008: Georgia, 2022: Ukraine. Which “present day” Russians are we talking about? Every generation does this. The government is as much a product of the culture as the average joe. They are all brothers and equally responsible.
Looking at things objectively, the USSR actually saved europe from the Nazis they crushed them with the support of the US, France and Uk. But the credit definitely is for the USSR. If they havent won the war. Czechoslovakia would have been a region in nazi germany.
If the west didn’t supply Stalin, his troops would starve and the war would drag on for much longer. The only reason the ussr “liberated” so much was because Stalin, Churchill and Truman shook hand in 1943 and decided who will get what. If the US didn’t supply Russia, the US would actually liberate everyone
Gaza, west bank & all Palestine will be free from Zionists & no other occupiers would try to take the land. As Czech, Algeria and many other countries got their freedom, Palestine will be free from the river to the sea
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"Six years we waited for your help. For 20 years we were friends with you. For a thousand years, we will hate you. We don't want to live on our knees!
Never forget 1968
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So well expressed!
Чехословакия стояла на пороге реставрации капитализма. Социализм с человеческим лицом это утопия, как и горбачевская перестройка. Брежнев, в отличие от Горбачева, это прекрасно понимал.
My aunt escaped to Australia during the Prague spring. It is saddening that it was crushed so violently by the Warsaw pact. Thank you to Romania and Albania for not participating in the invasion 🇷🇴❤️🇦🇱❤️🇨🇿❤️🇸🇰
The blame for sending in the Warsaw troups were their communist Governments not their people's. This is what Putin wants back, Power. Slava freedom democracy peace and prosperity. ✌️ for victory.
I also fled ahead of the Muscovite imperial tanks, to Australia, and still hate the ruSSians and all things ruSSian with all my heart.
Albania couldnt participate even if they wanted to. They were surrounded by Yugoslavia, who opposed Soviet occupation of Cz. Albanian was Chinese ally at the time I think. And was not part of Warsaw pact. Yugoslavia was only one to give support to Cz
Albania? They not Warsaw Pact,
@@uroskostic8570 Was not then, they withdrew, formally in 1968.
One thing this video doesn't portray - the years that followed the invasion, how many people were destroyed during the following 20 years.
They were destroyed during the whole 41 years the communists were in power. Nothing changed.
We were occupied for a few hundred years by the Austrians, for 6 years by the Germans and for 41 years by the Soviets.
Because it seems that these films on YT were of the time or not long after. They probably didn't have the information of the later horrors.
*This video documentary is from that exact time period, not a modern one.*
I was grown up in these 20 years as a half Czech, travelling between Prague and the West where we lived several times a year. I still hate the Russians for what they've done to the beautifull country and also for what they are doing now in Ukraine. Russians have a centuries old tradition of surpression and never to be trusted attitude. It's their DNA.
I really appreciated watching this contemporaneous coverage of a historic event. Particularly as it’s in English. Many thanks for posting.
40:00 camera man got distracted . When I visited Prague I wish I had studied more of the history. Very brave people.🙏🏼
A man of culture
Soviet Union: "Fraternal Aid"
Putin: "Special Operation"
Georgia 2008: peace enforcement 😅
invasion by any other name
Truman: "police operation" (referring to the Korean war)
my mother was 15 on that very day and coming over german border back home from visiting grandparents in east germany. only to find out, GENERATION LOST
Israel peace keeping operations
Half our Family was in the US. The others there. My grandmother visited in 1972 she said she cried. It was awful. Thank goodness they are free now.
Something my exgirlfriends Czechoslovakian grandparents who were part of the WWII resistance told me made me "Had we known what evil was to follow the German occupation we would have ended the resistance and fought to the death beside the Germans".
Very cool! Love seeing these types of documentaries. Love it!
I would like to eat bread with you
@@kjdempsey Thank you! May God bless you!
@@Brian6587 and also with you
An excellent documentary!
My neighbors in SF, CA barely escaped Czechoslovakia when they once again faced fascist Russian rule. Moscow is so afraid of Truth, and the UN, so afraid of Moscow. Reruns.
You're crazy if you think the UN is afraid of Moscow. Russia can barely even feed itself anymore.
@@jackbarnes9728 Russia is currently engaged in a genocidal war of conquest, and is threatening the whole of Europe with nuclear disaster. Oh and Russia has 6000 nukes.
Both of y'all are crazy if you think the UN are anyone's friend
@@LunaticTheCat i suspect that, along with all the other misinformation that you babble forth, you would be hard pressed to point out the geographical region in which ukrainia is situate (on an unmarked map).
@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Since when have communists become fascists? I am keenly aware that the Soviets were not right-wing.
Embedded in this crisis was the mini-crisis of the making of
the American war epic movie "The Bridge At Remagen" that
was filmed in Czechoslovakia at the time.
The scouts had found there a bridge that looked like the Ludendorff bridge
on the Rhine at Remagen.
It was then the Spring Of Prague & the Czech government allowed the filming.
The Americans brought with them some WW2 vintage M-24 light tanks.
That was enough for adipose-leonid's professionaliars to accuse the Dubcek
government of opening Czechoslovakia to NATO, stoking the fires of calls for invasion from the likes of Wilhelm Ulbricht.
Walter, not Wilhelm
For real ? 😮
Munich 1938, Prague 1968, thank you free world
The nazis did the first one although with the acquiescence of the free world and the communists, not the free world, did the latter.
@@johnnotrealname8168 he's saying that the free world didn't do squat for czechoslovakia. Are you confused by every comment?
@@ablazedguy Well you can hardly blame the free-world for either.
@@johnnotrealname8168 1938 you can, very easily, the French and the British would blame Czechoslovaks for the war if they didn't surrender to Germans.
1968 there's not much they could militarily do, but they didn't even make a proper statement. If it happened in East Germany it would be very different..
@@ablazedguy I highly doubt that, in any case I am not defending the lack of action, it very clearly is German aggression not the Free World.
Dude, I hate communists so I boil at that notion but I also hate Lyndon Baines Johnson.
🇵🇭❤️🇨🇿❤️🇺🇸 long live democracy !
🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
Thank you for sharing
once again!!
"Fraternal Aid," catchy.
Putin calls it a "Special Operation".... I call it complete BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
Tremendous film
Fraternal aid? Russia has history of taking country for boundaries gained
And so the term "Prague Spring" was minted...
That period of Czechoslovak history is actually called after the annual "Prague Spring" music festival in Prague.
the "Prague Spring" was the months of liberalization that ended with what we see in this film
I Wonder Why countries are so desperate to join NATO!
Russian Tactics don't seem to have changed too much.
I think it is disingenuous to use events after the countries joined N.A.T.O. to justify them joining N.A.T.O. I despise the commies but not only was there a promise not to move N.A.T.O. East, the Russians were begging the Americans not to do so back in the '90s. I do not blame the Eastern-European countries as much, although by that point N.A.T.O. was pretty useless, since you know but the West should have tried to woo Russia as well as be fraternal.
@@johnnotrealname8168 these events in 1968 were exactly the reason why Czechs begged to be accepted to NATO in 1990s…..
@@letecmig After the country that did it ceased to exist. It is understandable but it does not mean Russia was suddenly okay with it.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Russia can think what it wants about it, but it was Czech decision. And motivated exactly by the wish to make sure 1968 is not repeated. That is simple fact about the motivation of Czechs to join NATO and why Czech political representation worked and lobbied so hard in the 1990s to be accepted in NATO (which finally happened in 1999)
@@letecmig This makes no sense every member of N.A.T.O. is also involved not only Czechia. They should also have acknowledged that Russia is not the u.s.s.r. in line with George Herbert Walker Bush's promise.
Nahh, in modern term called Special operation. Ha ha
Can someone pls tell us who made this documentary? The narrator has an indiscernible accent.
22:55 the neighbor with whom they once shared the Emperors
47:57 Is this Vaclav Havel ?😮
Why USSR did not invade Romania or Yugoslavia for breaking away from Soviet domination?
8:01 Russian soldiers: “ Why don’t these people welcome us as their protectors ?!” 😊 Oops. 😂😂😂
plan was the infiltrators were to call for help from the soviets at midnight who just happened to be having an exercise near the border. But due to soviet time zone being 1 hr ahead of local time, the soviets came 1hr before the locals call for help !!! A lady laid dinner plates across the road and tanks assumed they were mines and stoped their advance.
Underrated factoid comment. Staple KGB playbook to this day.
Now Ukraine is on fire ........
and lot of other nations too
@sladetuner8661
Some are, but nowhere near on the same magnitude. Also all of these nations are mostly burning from civil wars and insurgencies instead of old-school invasion and occupation. Some of these civil unrests are instigated by the same agressor too, if you know what's up in Africa and probably will be in Georgia soon. Apples and orangutans.
If you're wondering, the damage has been done, russians succeeded in destroying most of Czech and Slovak pride, faith and hope..
what was worse, ussr occupation or nazi occupation
I can't speak for the Czech people, but apart from some Jewish and gypsy families, all of current Russia's neighbours will confirm that Nazi occupation were less brutal and a marginally lesser evil. Probably shorter duration and fact that first occuation was done by the Red army (1939) not Wehrmacht add to that bias. Perception from anyone of that period is that reds were worse, even it's a huge generalisation and maybe some wartime propaganda. However this mostly comes from human interaction with soldiers and post-war Soviet propaganda completely erased and upturned any traces of other propagandas and facts alike. A common theme recounted from the first sources during the war is - Germans came giving chocolate and other gestures of goodwill and kept order, while Russians looted and trashed everything they wanted and executed anyone suspected of non-loyalty and higher class without scrupulae. Source: my grandparents and their friends.
God bless those brave people
Special Operation
Hi I'm from Slovakia, and Thanks to our Warsaw pact partners, that came to save us from downfall that happed finally in 1989 unfortunatelly.
Aha a žil jsi v těch letech.
@@CzechwalkerguyDo you know the joke of the guy who goes to the psychiatrie Doctor in East Berlin?😅
Do you notice Mickey Mouse on the tire cover. About 6 minutes
Homer Sapiens..
Are Something Else..
1968..
Vietnam War - Martin Luther King - Robert Kennedy - Biafra War ( Nigeria )..
Ďakujeme Varšavskej zmluve za bratsku pomoc v auguste 1968!
Slováci.... na to nemám jinou odpověď
Please do not attempt to mix up the Soviets with the present day Russians.
Turns out there are many parallels
wow your one day old comment, didn’t age well at all!
why not
Got no problem with present day Russians ............ if they don't support the Russian agression in Ukraine.
1956: Hungary, 1968: Czechoslovakia, 1979: Afghanistan, 2008: Georgia, 2022: Ukraine. Which “present day” Russians are we talking about? Every generation does this. The government is as much a product of the culture as the average joe. They are all brothers and equally responsible.
Mainstream Media never FELT a amount of pain that they deserve for what they've done into our society
Instead of speaking truth to power, they push scripts and narratives on behalf of power.
; Fabian - Prado, | Gustavo; , Robledo. #R
Looking at things objectively, the USSR actually saved europe from the Nazis they crushed them with the support of the US, France and Uk. But the credit definitely is for the USSR. If they havent won the war. Czechoslovakia would have been a region in nazi germany.
They "saved" Europe from nazis because nazis were their enemies, they didn´t do it from goodness of their heart.
If the west didn’t supply Stalin, his troops would starve and the war would drag on for much longer. The only reason the ussr “liberated” so much was because Stalin, Churchill and Truman shook hand in 1943 and decided who will get what. If the US didn’t supply Russia, the US would actually liberate everyone
@Fifi_02 And USA was neutral until Japan attacked them, lol.
And?
@perseus274"independent"
The west bank the gaza strip. Soon to be parking lots. For american tourists. Fat mike
Gaza, west bank & all Palestine will be free from Zionists & no other occupiers would try to take the land. As Czech, Algeria and many other countries got their freedom, Palestine will be free from the river to the sea