Events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia (1968)

View of a part of Prague.

Girls sitting on the steps and benches near the university building, preparing for classes.

Young people walking in the street.

View of a part of Prague.

Tourists on the Old Town Square.

Faces of tourists.

A girl taking photos.

Car and tram traffic in Prague.

A man at a table in an outdoor cafe.

Young people sitting on the steps and benches near the walls of the building.

Faces of musicians of a symphony orchestra.

A conductor at the console.

View of a symphony orchestra.

View of a part of Golden Prague (from above).

Ancient buildings of Prague.

Views of the building of St.

George's Cathedral, elements of stone decorations of the building.

Views and panorama of ancient buildings of Prague.

Monuments on the streets of Prague.

Statues of saints on the Charles Bridge.

View of a part of the Charles Bridge and Golden Prague.

A queue for newspapers on one of the streets of Prague in the spring of 1968. Texts of newspaper stands in Czech.

Speakers giving speeches at one of the opposition rallies, faces of the rally participants.

Student demonstrations in Prague demanding reforms.

Leaflets in support of Dubcek's policies pasted on the wall of one of the buildings, city residents collecting signatures in support of Dubcek.

Faces of opposition representatives and speakers at rallies, young people at a rally.

Demonstration of young people on the streets of Prague, faces of the demonstration participants.

National flags of the countries participating in the Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries above the entrance to the palace in Bratislava on August 3, 1968. Leaders of the Communist Parties of the socialist countries at the conference table.

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria T. Zhivkov signs the text of the statement adopted at the conference.

Walter Ulbricht signs the text of the statement.

Janos Kadar signs the text of the statement. W. Gomulka signs the statement, sitting next to him is the Prime Minister of Poland J. Cyrankiewicz.

Brezhnev L.I. signs the text of the statement, with N.V. Podgorny and N.A. Kosygin sitting nearby.

Kosygin signs the text of the statement, with M.A. Suslov sitting nearby.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Participants in the Soviet-Czechoslovak negotiations on August 23-26 in the Kremlin, at the table - Brezhnev, Kosygin, Podgorny, Suslov.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia A. Dubcek and members of the Czechoslovak delegation during the negotiations.

View of the negotiating room.

Brezhnev speaking during the negotiations.

Dubcek and members of the Czechoslovak delegation look over the documents presented to him.

Faces of the participants in the negotiations.

Text of the Communique on the Soviet-Czechoslovak negotiations, published in the Pravda newspaper.

Kosygin N.A., Podgorny N.V. and members of the Soviet delegation walk across the square together with the participants of the Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries on August 3, 1968. Suslov M.A. talks with members of the Soviet delegation on the go.

Walter Ulbricht signs the text of the statement adopted at the conference. W. Gomulka signs the statement, with Polish Prime Minister J. Cyrankiewicz sitting next to him.

Brezhnev L.I. signs the text of the statement, with Podgorny N.V. and Kosygin N.A. sitting next to him.

Kosygin signs the text of the statement, with Suslov M.A. sitting next to him.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia A. Dubcek signs the text of the statement (still frame).

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny during the Soviet-Czechoslovak negotiations in the Kremlin on August 23-26. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia A. Dubcek and members of the Czechoslovak delegation during negotiations.

The face of Brezhnev, who is conducting the negotiations.

Dubcek and members of the Czechoslovak delegation look over the documents offered to him.

Czechoslovak workers, scientists, and peasants give interviews about the political situation in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic since January 1968, criticize the actions of the opposition (synchronously and off-camera), faces of participants in meetings and rallies.

A view of one of the opposition rallies in Prague in 1968. Participants in the meeting are loosening the bars.

The face of the speaker.

Faces of the participants in the meeting.

Participants in one of the opposition meetings are entering the room.

The face of the speaker.

A representative of opposition circles is speaking from the rostrum.

Faces of the participants in the meeting.

View of a part of the meeting hall.

A cameraman is filming a speaker speaking from the rostrum.

Faces of the participants in the meeting.

The speaker is speaking from the rostrum.

View of a part of Golden Prague and the Charles Bridge over the Vltava.

Girls sit on the steps and benches near the university building, preparing for classes.

Young people walk in the street.

View of the central part of Prague (from above).

Tourists on the Old Town Square.

View of the opposition rally hall.

A cameraman films a speaker speaking from the rostrum.

Faces of the meeting participants.

First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR K. T. Mazurov during a visit to one of the machine-building plants of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, next to him is the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic H. Husak.

Czechoslovak veterans of World War II and the partisan movement applaud before the start of the rally.

View of the square during a mass rally.

Applauding rally participants. H. Husak speaks from the rostrum.

Mazurov speaks from the rostrum. panorama of the rally.

Faces of veterans present at the rally.

A Czechoslovak military man speaks from the rostrum.

Soviet soldiers carry out confiscated small arms found in a secret warehouse.

Samples of confiscated small arms.

Transportation of confiscated weapons on a hand truck.

Panorama of part of the wall of one of the castles in the Czech Republic.

View of an ancient castle (from above).

Views of the building of St.

George's Cathedral in Prague, elements of the building's stone decorations.

Monuments on the streets of Prague.

Statues of saints on the Charles Bridge.

View of part of the Charles Bridge and Golden Prague.