Materials on the film "Czechoslovakia, the year of testing." (The events in Czechoslovakia in 1968). (1968)

Footage №17413, 12 parts, duration: 0:05:45, black-white
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Camera operators:Istomin A., Artseulov O.

Temporary description:

Autumn 1968. Military exercises in one of the Soviet artillery units near the town of Prague. Soviet soldiers are helping the Czechoslovak farmers in harvesting, talk with local residents. Arrival in Prague, the Soviet delegation, headed by General S. Martirosyan. Visit of the delegation of one of the Czechoslovak military units, a shipyard in Komarno, livestock farm. Laying wreaths at the monument to Soviet soldiers at the cemetery Olshansky, the tank number 23, set in honor of Soviet tank crews, who liberated Prague from Nazi invaders. Accommodation in Prague, the Soviet government delegation led by Kosygin. Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty on the conditions of the temporary stay of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak territory. The agreement signed by Kosygin and O. Cernik. At the signing of the Treaty are present: Andrei Gromyko, Grechko, VV Kuznetsov, L. Svoboda, Alexander Dubcek, H. Husak, I. Smrkovsky, L. Shtraugal and other officials (October 16, 1968 years). Seeing the Soviet government delegation at the airport. Letters of Czechoslovak citizens in the Soviet Embassy. Czechoslovak and foreign newspapers with the material on the events in Czechoslovakia.

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