Zbynek Cerovsky, one of the soldiers to meet Klaus, said Lithuanian ban on Soviet symbols ...
Soviet troops had nuclear weapons in CzechRep as of 1969 -general ...
Projects ... he really appreciates the invitation. During the invasion, Cerovsky served at the airport near Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, where the Soviet occupation troops landed.
They demanded fuel, accommodation, food and water from the airport personnel. However, Cerovsky refused to provide it. He later refused to sign the agreement with the occupation. Cerovsky was persecuted by the communist regime over his attitudes. He had problems to find a job. In 1976, he was arrested and accused of marring the elections, he recalled. After he was released from prison, he signed the Charter 77 human rights manifesto. His family then ended up in poverty and his wife lost her job. The armies of five Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary and Poland, crossed the Czechoslovak border in the night to August 21, 1968 to crash the Communist-led reform movement in the country. The supreme Soviet leaders feared liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960th that culminated after reform communist Alexander Dubcek was elected to the Communist Party's (KSC) helm in January 1968. The Soviet troops' presence on Czechoslovak territory was later "legalised" by a treaty that the National Assembly (Czechoslovak parliament) approved in October 1968. The last Soviet soldiers left the country only 23 years later, following the collapse of the communist regime in 1989.
(Ceske Noviny)
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