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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

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Prague Spring, 1968

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Czechoslovakia

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Shelest, P. IU. (Petro IUkhymovych)

1908- 1996

Ukrainian Motherland Monument, Kyiv

Eastern Europe

Ukraine

Warsaw Pact

Warsaw Pact Military Planning

Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

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Poland

Sino-Soviet Relations

Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

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Sawczuk, Wlodzimierz

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Photograph of Zhou Enlai in 1972.

Zhou, Enlai

1898- 1976

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Eastern Europe

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Il’nyts’kyi, Yu. V.

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Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906- 1982

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Jaruzelski, W. (Wojciech)

1923- 2014

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May 14, 1968	KGB Lt. Col. A. Zhabchenko's Report to the Ukrainian SSR's Council of Ministers
May 12, 1968	Yu. Ilnytskyi Reports on Items from the Czechoslovak Media On Certain Items Featured in Czechoslovak Television Broadcasts and in the Newspaper ‘Rudé právo'.
May 14, 1968	Report by KGB Lt. Col. Zabchenko on his meeting with a Slovakian Interior Ministry Colonel
June 20, 1971	Conversation of Cde. Nicolae Ceausescu and Cde. Zhou Enlai at the Embassy Notes regarding the conversation of Cde. Nicolae Ceausescu and Cde. Zhou Enlai at the dinner organized by the [Romanian] embassy in honor of the Chinese leadership.
October 1969	Polish-Soviet Talks in Moscow Excerpts from Polish-Soviet talks that focus on the China question. Brezhnev posits that the Chinese were the source of ideological divergence, and more specifically that their attitude has progressed to anti-Sovietism and anti-communism. Included is a report from a meeting with Zhou Enlai, who in discussing Czechoslovakia said a "process of bourgeoisie transformation and corruption was taking place over there, which is normal for all of the socialist countries." He attributed the cultural revolution with cutting off the roots of corruption in China.
July 27, 1968	Directive of the Ministry of Defense for Exercise ‘OVERCAST SUMMER-68’ Directive describes how the military exercise Overcast Summer-68 ["Pochmurne Lato"] will transpire on August 1 on the border of Poland and Czechoslovakia from 28 July to 5 August 1968 and states the logistics of the exercise. Information includes what groups will be used, their commanding generals, equipment, and first aid materials. The document also details how communications between all parties involved will function, as well as signal words and numbers that are to be used under various situations. Directive is signed by Minister of Defense and General of Divisions, Wojciech Jaruzelski.
August 17, 1968	Stenographic transcript of meeting of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party Ceausescu relates his recent meeting with Dubcek in Prague in August 1968. His talks with Dubcek focused primarily on the events that had unfolded in Czechoslovakia over the last several months.
November 28, 1989	The Position of the Civic Forum and Public Against Violence Toward the Negotiations with Czechoslovak Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec, Prague The Position of the Civic Forum and Public Against Violence Toward the Negotiations with Czechoslovak Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec, Prague, discussing demands for condemnation of 1968 invasion and promises made by the Prime Minister to the Civic Forum
May 14, 1968	Report by KGB Lt. Col Demochko on a Meeting with "Czechoslovak Friends"
August 24, 1968	Telegrams from Romanian Embassy, Beijing, to Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 22-24 August 1968 A series of three telegrams reporting on a reception held at the Romanian Embassy in Beijing on August 23, 1968. Premier Zhou Enlai attended the event and gave a speech condemning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.