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Prague Spring

The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.

A former student, Olda Cerny, tells Alan Johnston about how he made a desperate appeal for the support of the outside world as invading Soviet tanks rumbled through the streets of the Czechoslovak capital in August 1968. This programme was first broadcast in 2010.

Picture: Soviet troops in Prague (Getty Images)

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Tue 21 Aug 2018 07:50GMT
麻豆社 World Service except News Internet

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