Five countries of the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. The historic events unfolded as reformers in Czechoslovakia sought to overturn Stalinism, revive a stagnant economy and return ...

SINCE the party cannot change the people,” Alexander Dubček once said, “it must itself change.” One year ago this week, Dubček’s historic attempt to guide Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party in the ...

“No Jews of German origin have been deported from Czechoslovakia,” Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today. Mr. Masaryk was hopeful that the regulation ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - The overthrow of the Czechoslovak regime of Alexander Dubcek and its replacement by pro-Soviet leaders was a foregone conclusion, diplomatic sources said today. Soviets ...

THOUGH water cannon and police truncheons kept last week’s demonstrations in Czechoslovakia under control, mere force is not likely to suppress other aftereffects of last year’s invasion. Reflecting ...

Pope Leo XIV has approved the beatification of nine Polish priests killed in Nazi German concentration camps during World War ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The events unfolding in Ukraine potentially hold dire implications for the future, but the war also brings back memories of other historical conflicts in the region. That includes some ...