25K views · 291 reactions | Exactly 50 years ago, on the night between 20 and 21 August, Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia putting an end to the Prague Spring  1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ | Prague Morning | Facebook

86K views · 672 reactions | On #ThisDayinHistory 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. It was the largest deployment of military force in Europe since the end of World War II. | HISTORY | Facebook